“The average doctor is doing 41 of these a week.” — American Medical Association President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, discussing the large increase in prior authorization requests over the several years.
“They’re not looking holistically. They’re not even thinking of it.” — Brittany Walsh-Reed, PharmD, BCPS, an independent consultant in Cleveland, on the paucity of good research on posture and pharmacokinetics.
“How is it that I — a neurologist — was somehow not believed or taken seriously? And if I — a neurologist — had this experience, what chance do non-physicians have when trying to seek care?” — Ilene Ruhoy, MD, PhD, of Mount Sinai South Nassau in New York, on the importance of listening to and trusting patients.
“Very few patients seem to benefit from it.” — Marcin Chwistek, MD, of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, on how adding cannabidiol oil to palliative care did not improve cancer-related symptoms.
“They weren’t meaning to shut us [female trainees] down, but it’s, ‘I’m going to treat you the way I was treated,’ or, ‘I’m going to teach you to be tough because that’s what I had to do to survive.'” — Cheryl Zogg, PhD, MSPH, MHS, of the Yale School of Medicine in Connecticut, on how some female mentors perpetuate gender disparities in surgery.
“It has been a fatal blow.” — Francis Collins, MD, PhD, former director of the NIH and current science advisor to President Biden, on the impact COVID misinformation on social media had on the ability for people to discern the truth.
“[It] is not unlikely that participants in this study did not know that they were doing vigorous physical activity.” — Emmanuel Stamatakis, PhD, of the University of Sydney in Australia, on how short bursts of vigorous activity lasting a few minutes a day were linked with lower all-cause mortality.
“In the big picture, the use of antibiotics is only one risk factor.” — Svein-Oskar Frigstad, MD, PhD, of the University of Oslo, commenting on the link between early life antibiotic exposure and pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.
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