Perspectives > > What We Heard This Week– Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today‘s press reporters
by MedPage Today Staff February 18, 2024
“If you just report on the nurses leaving, and do not represent those who are being available in, you can produce some frightening sounding headings.”– David Auerbach, PhD, of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the rebound of the signed up nurse labor force following a pandemic downturn.
“It’s still the truth to the client, and to discount rate that does an injustice to the client.”– David Yuh, MD, of Stamford Hospital in Connecticut, on possible placebo results with a prospective brand-new treatment for extreme tricuspid regurgitation under FDA evaluation.
“Nitazenes might be a brand-new hazard however we currently have responses; we simply require to provide a possibility to work.”– medical toxicologist Ryan Marino, MD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, on a class of artificial opioids getting increased attention recently.
“The conceit and aspiration of Dr. Bliss did not enable any consultations. The autopsy validated what Bliss openly and adamantly rejected, that the bullet was on the left side of the president’s body.”– Jeffrey Reznick, PhD, senior historian with the National Library of Medicine, on the death of President James Garfield.
“It’s not like a near-miss in an aircraft crash, where you re-evaluate whatever that potentially might have failed [and] you repair everything, then the day after that you’re at the most affordable threat ever for an aircraft crash.”– Jacob Ballon, MD, MPH, of Stanford University in California, on the high suicide threat of clients hospitalized for anxiety in the very first couple of days after discharge.
“We’re doing more things in this one container, however that container has a limited quantity of things it can spend for.”– Adam Bruggeman, MD, a solo-practice cosmetic surgeon in San Antonio, on decreasing repayments to cosmetic surgeons under Medicare.
“This is great news.”– Catherine Kim, MD, MPH, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, on how high blood pressure and cholesterol control reversed raised cardiovascular danger in particular high-risk midlife ladies.
