Dr. Choi Su-bong's Insulin Pump for Diabetes
- Instrument gains FDA approval and used in many countries to cure diabetes

Diabetes patients are now figured to be totaling anywhere from 3 million to 5 million, are projected to reach 10 million by 2010. The sickness not only hurts the individual patients, but is also incurring national and social losses and pains as one out of four people in the country suffers from the ailment.
According to reports released by the World Health Organization, one diabetic patient dies from complications from the illness in every 10 seconds. The Japanese Diabetes Institute said the possibility for sudden death from diabetes has been rising rapidly in one of its reports.
Amid the chaotic situation, there is a doctor who has been curing diabetes patients with insulin pumps proving that diabetes is no longer an incurable disease. Medical professor Choi Su-bong of Konkuk University Medical School is that very doctor.
In his writing on the Diabetes Metabolism Research and Reviews, a world-renowned professional medical journal, Doctor Choi said he has been able to medically cure 34.4 percent of diabetic patients without the help of drugs or other medical treatment. They have been able to maintain normal blood sugar rates for more than a year, he said.
"Diabetes is no longer a fearful disease if patients receive proper medical care and complications can be prevented. Having exercise and a balanced diet would not be able to cure the illness for good. They have to have the proper amount of sugar in their blood, enabling the supply of proper nutrition, which would cure but also prevent complications," the medical doctor wrote.
He said the insulin pump is more effective in the early stages of the illness. He has many patients that come to see doctors after the sickness has been well advanced with significant complications, some after being blinded and missing legs due to the illness. He said he started his medical research into diabetes to find cures for Korean diabetic patients after learning that 80 percent of diabetic patients in the country were not obese, but he found that 80 percent of the patients in the United States were overweight.
As a result of his extended research for the cure for Korean diabetic patients from his days at Seoul National University Medical School, he developed the insulin pump to the surprise of the medical community and the world. The instrument can be carried around in the body and its ability has been certified around the world. In 2000, it received the approval from the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and CE from the European Union. It is being used in many advanced countries including the United States, Britain, France, Germany and China, among others.
Dr. Choi said the current world trend for treating diabetes is focused on controlling the supply of sugar in blood with insulin. The insulin pump has been particularly effective in curing the early stages of diabetes and it also prevented complications associated with the ailment even if it was more than 10 years old and even 20 years old. Diabetes patients who relied on diet to cure the ailment suffered from malnutrition and illnesses associated with it. But patients at his clinic can eat any kinds of food while undergoing treatment, making them healthy with a high morale and hope in their lives. It was possible due to the efforts of all doctors and their staff including nurses, physical exercise specialists and dieticians. The lecture on diabetes by specialists at 3 p.m. every day has also been helpful, he said. The daily lecture from Monday to Friday touches on such subjects as physical exercise, understanding the ailment and the method of using the insulin pump and post-hospital care for outpatients.
Dr, Choi reiterated that diabetes should be detected early in order to be completely cured with the insulin pump. It has high chances of being cured completely when it is diagnosed in early stages, he repeated.
The pump supplies insulin to the bodies of diabetic patients so that sugar in the blood can be controlled. The pump helps to maintain the level of sugar in blood at the normal level with insulin supplied from outside the body. When having meals, the supply of insulin is increased so that sugar level in blood will be maintained at a normal level. nw