“You need to listen to them to understand the disease. The patients know more than the doctors.” — Paul Garner, MD, of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in England, discussing symptoms that may accompany so-called long COVID, which he has.
“The Sacklers may literally be getting away with not murder, but mass manslaughter.” — Andrew Kolodny, MD, of Brandeis University, discussing the Department of Justice’s $8 billion plea deal with Purdue Pharma, which included no jail time.
“It’s important to treat every clinical encounter as an opportunity to vaccinate.” — Elizabeth La, PhD, of RTI Health Solutions in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, on her study of adolescent immunizations.
“Be prepared to have a plan A, a plan B, and a plan C.” — David Ferraro, MD, of National Jewish Health in Denver, on lessons learned from the first wave of the pandemic for treating critically ill COVID-19 patients.
“There was finally someone like me that was actually giving birth to a child, from a uterus that wasn’t hers.” — Kayla Edwards, a patient with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome who later gave birth to a healthy girl after a uterus transplant.
“We really weren’t expecting this result.” — Sung Choi, MD, of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, on finding an association between lungs transplanted from obese donors and better survival among recipients.
“How do you improve something that you cannot even measure?” — Zubaid Rafique, MD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, on the difficulties of identifying severe hyperkalemia in the emergency department.
Source: MedicalNewsToday.com
