‘He Was Looking for Blood’: What We Heard This Week

“He was looking for blood.” — Theodore Pappas, MD, of Duke University in North Carolina, discussing how former President Theodore Roosevelt used his military training and coughed after being shot in the chest in 1912.

“The disease itself has its own fingerprint.” — Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, of the VA St. Louis Health Care System in Missouri, on new data about long COVID.

“Do you know what the smell of rotting flesh smells like? The people of my city do.” — Michael Coyle, an illegal immigration activist in Pennsylvania, describing the effects of xylazine.

“You should just pick the thing that is most likely based on the odds, and not the thing that is the most interesting.” — Joel Zivot, MD, MA, JM, of Emory University in Atlanta, on diagnosing potential “zebra” cases.

“It’s a good news, bad news situation.” — Christopher Friese, PhD, RN, AOCN, of the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor, discussing changes in the nursing workforce.

“It’s a very rare allergy.” — Julie McNairn, MD, an allergist in private practice in Ithaca, New York, discussing coconut allergies.

“Every action has unintended consequences.” — Julie Johnson, PhD, MSPH, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discussing unionization in healthcare.

“The answer was yes.” — Anette-Gabriele Ziegler, MD, of the Institute of Diabetes Research at Helmholtz Munich in Germany, on whether pandemic-era increases in type 1 diabetes cases occurred predominantly in kids infected with COVID.

“This might seem obvious in hindsight.” — Salim Hayek, MD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, discussing a trial of the angiotensin receptor blocker losartan in severe COVID.

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