“This has never been shown before in a human.” — Jayme Locke, MD, MPH, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, on the successful pig-to-human kidney xenotransplant that assumed normal functioning in a brain-dead decedent.
“High smoke days might be taking a toll on our brains.” — Boya Zhang, PhD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, discussing links between wildfire smoke and incident dementia.
“The fact that this core group of doctors has been spreading misinformation completely unopposed from March of 2020 up until today is a very significant finding and truly representative of the reality of what is happening in American medicine today.” — Nick Sawyer, MD, MBA, an emergency physician in California, on a study showing that the propagation of COVID misinformation was attributed to 52 U.S.-based physicians.
“All of these people knew they were being recorded.” — Michael Sun, MD, of the University of Chicago, commenting on a study that found stigmatizing language in 23% of audio recordings of verbal patient handoffs.
“There’s nothing that’s not toxic if you take enough of it.” — Lewis Nelson, MD, of Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, discussing potential harms of the largely unregulated herbal supplement kratom.
“Human biology is exquisite.” — Bruce Hirsch, MD, of Northwell Health in Manhasset, New York, discussing a case report of a man developing blue legs upon standing likely related to long COVID.
“One of the things for me about music is it has prosody and emotional content.” — Robert Knight, MD, of the University of California Berkeley, who worked on reconstructing a Pink Floyd song from intracranial electroencephalography (EEG) recordings.
“GPT-4 may help clinicians to analyze clinical situations with diagnostic difficulties.” — Yat-Fung Shea, MBBS, of Queen Mary Hospital and University of Hong Kong, on the potential benefits of OpenAI’s generative artificial intelligence program.
“We think it is worth considering this piroxicam-levonorgestrel combination to be put into routine clinical use.” — Raymond Hang Wun Li, MD, of the University of Hong Kong, after finding the oral COX-2 inhibitor piroxicam boosted levonorgestrel’s emergency contraception efficacy.
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