‘Residents Are the Horses That Make This Place Run’: What We Heard This Week

“These residents are the horses that make this place run, and they’re not feeding them enough.” — Stuart Bussey, MD, JD, president of Union of American Physicians and Dentists, discussing the University of Buffalo striking trainees who have been in contract limbo for a year.

“The scariest part is, there’s no ingredient list necessarily on the box.” — Alina Djougarian, MD, of Northwell Health in New York, warning about eye color-changing drops sold online.

“This case with Matthew Perry is kind of like a sentinel event.” — Gerald Busch, MD, MPH, of the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on Addiction Psychiatry, about how the actor’s death may signal a nationwide ketamine problem.

“You would be ill-advised to think that everyone isn’t potentially vulnerable.” — John Lauriello, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, on tardive dyskinesia risk with dopamine receptor-blocking drugs.

“That was, to me, really like a moment of wonder.” — Amish Shah, MD, MPH, a Democrat in Arizona’s state legislature, on his inspiration to pursue medicine.

“The situation is complicated by the detection of a new variant.” — Jay Varma, MD, of SIGA Technologies in New York City, discussing recent developments with the global mpox emergency.

“It really doesn’t make sense.” — Shun Yu, MD, of NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, on using bolus 5-fluorouracil with chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancers.

“[The] science communication aspect of this musical is really unmatched.” — Judy Minkoff, PhD, of New York University Langone Health, on an off-Broadway show about antimicrobial resistance.