‘The Light Goes Out of Their Eyes in About 3 Years’: What We Heard This Week

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“The light goes out of their eyes in about 3 years. This is not what they signed up for.” — Clark Coler, MD, of Swedish Medical Group in Seattle, on young physicians facing the increasingly profit-driven demands of modern healthcare.

“They feel relief, not pleasure, not joy, just relief.” — Daniel Watter, EdD, of the Morris Psychological Group in Parsippany, New Jersey, describing how men typically react when a treatment for premature ejaculation works.

“If you’ve ever seen the movie ‘Wall-E,’ where those people are sort of on that little scooter, we’re almost there.” — Bethany Barone Gibbs, PhD, of West Virginia University School of Public Health in Morgantown, discussing a study linking sedentary behavior during pregnancy to higher risks of adverse birth outcomes.

“We are ready 24/7 365 to take in any patient that may have a disease like Ebola.” — Aneesh Mehta, MD, of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, reflecting on the institutional readiness built during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

“It can be a skin-changing event.” — Ross Levy, MD, of Northwell’s Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York, proposing a more accurate alternative to calling a severe sunburn “life-changing.”

“If you only study the fatal attempts, it’s really only the tip of the iceberg.” — Donald Sullivan, MD, of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, on new evidence about which veterans with cancer are most vulnerable to suicide attempts.

“These drugs should not be viewed as IBD therapies yet.” — Sailish Honap, MD, MBBS, of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, tempering expectations about GLP-1 medications for inflammatory bowel disease.

“Many prefer it over a pelvic exam.” — Beverly Green, MD, MPH, of Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, on how self-collected human papillomavirus tests raised cervical cancer screening rates.