“I can’t just sit back and walk away with a settlement.” — Ming Lin, MD, an emergency medicine physician who was fired early in the COVID pandemic for airing alleged safety concerns.
“This is getting at the whole diagnostic odyssey for rare diseases.” — P.J. Brooks, PhD, acting director of NIH’s NCATS’ Division of Rare Diseases Research Innovation, discussing the benefits of whole genome sequencing for detecting genetic abnormalities in infants.
“There’s no magic line at 10 weeks after which these pills stop working.” — Heidi Moseson, PhD, MPH, of Ibis Reproductive Health in Oakland, California, on abortion pills beyond 10 weeks of pregnancy.
“The most likely reason is chance.” — Michael Repka, MD, MBA, of the Jaeb Center for Health Research in Tampa, Florida, discussing a study of low-dose atropine eye drops to slow myopia in kids.
“I think it is very, very non-trivial to do.” — Richard Li, MD, of City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, about a machine learning model that identified high-risk surgical patients in clinical practice.
“When you see them as your patients, it’s a completely different ballgame.” — Nadia Baranchuk, MD, an emergency medicine physician at Northwell Health on Long Island, who treated two shark bite victims in a single afternoon.
“It is not proven to be effective.” — Daniel Pastula, MD, of the University of Colorado, discussing intrathecal injections of umbilical cord stem cells for multiple sclerosis.
“There shouldn’t be judgment associated with that.” — Charis Chambers, MD, on women who are looking to skip their period for non-medical reasons.
“Physicians need to be aware of loss of autonomy when they sell their practice to a [private equity] firm.” — Richard Scheffler, PhD, of the University of California Berkeley, on the rise of private equity acquisitions of U.S. practices.
“If egg proteins are extensively heated (baked for 30 minutes in a cupcake), they are often less allergenic than a boiled egg.” — Vincent Tubiolo, MD, of the Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Care Center of Santa Barbara, California, discussing pediatric food allergies.
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