‘Do You Want the Toyota or the Lexus?’: What We Heard This Week

“They said, ‘Do you want the Toyota or the Lexus?'” — Christina Prescott, MD, PhD, of NYU Langone Health in New York City, discussing how her aunt was sold a pricey multifocal lens for cataract surgery, then learned she wasn’t a good candidate for it.

“One way to think about transient global amnesia is as a temporary power outage affecting only the brain’s memory center.” — Laura Stein, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, explaining journalist Katie Couric’s temporary memory loss episode.

“This is a very unusual pattern.” — Natasha Bagdasarian, MD, MPH, chief medical executive for the state of Michigan, discussing the current Cyclospora outbreak in her state.

“Traditional gender norms may also contribute.” — Jose Barreau, MD, of PreOncology, a Florida-based oncology practice, on why men are more likely than women to receive late-stage diagnosis for 20 different cancers.

“This is a renaissance period for our specialty.” — Margaret De Oliveira, MD, of NYU Langone Health in New York City, discussing a wave of new chronic kidney disease medications moving through the pipeline.

“It’s not absurdly high in our world.” — Lauren Link, MS, RD, CSSD, of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, on Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland’s 6,000-calorie daily diet.

“There was a lot of hard work, there were a lot of late nights.” — Daphne Scott, MD, of the Hospital for Special Surgery and team physician for the New York Knicks, reflecting on her path in sports medicine.

“This is the impact of the N-of-1 design.” — Marco Blanker, MD, PhD, of University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, discussing a small crossover study that suggested over a third of older men with lower urinary tract symptoms had little or no benefit from an alpha-blocker and might be candidates for deprescribing.