We could still be wrong. That's what has to happen for this drug to move forward.

I expected the advisory panel to turn the drug down. When they didn't, I was really surprised. And so I now had a potential public health catastrophe in the waiting,

I treated this as a public health emergency, ... A drug that had an 8-to-1 vote in favor of approval and that could any day be approved by the FDA to be used by any of 18 million Americans with type 2 diabetes was, by my analysis, doubling of risk of serious irrevocable cardiovascular events like death, heart attacks and stroke. I dropped everything.

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

We have to move forward,

As long as you lay down on the pavement, you will be walked on, spit on and play on.Stand up and be no one's fool.We all rode the fool's highway but find your exit