(December 2, 2008 - Insidermedicine) Welcome to Insidermedicine In the Clinic, where we bring you advice on clinical skills from some of the world's best doctors, giving you the inside track on knowledge gleaned from years of medical experience.

On a recent trip to Boston, we caught up with Dr. David M. Nathan, MD, who is the Director of both the General Clinical Research Center and the Diabetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Nathan is also the Chairman of the Diabetes Prevention Program, an NIH-sponsored multicenter trial to prevent type 2 diabetes.