‘You Can Construct Some Provoking Sounding Headlines’: What We Heard This Week

“While you handiest file on the nurses leaving, and function no longer account for those which are coming in, that that you simply should perhaps perhaps make some upsetting sounding headlines.” — David Auerbach, PhD, of Brandeis College in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the rebound of the registered nurse personnel following a lethal illness creep.

“It be peaceful the fact to the affected person, and to decrease tag that does a disservice to the affected person.” — David Yuh, MD, of Stamford Clinic in Connecticut, on possible placebo effects with a possible fresh remedy for severe tricuspid regurgitation below FDA evaluate.

“Nitazenes is possible to be a fresh possibility however we already have answers; we appropriate need to present them a gamble to work.” — clinical toxicologist Ryan Marino, MD, of Case Western Reserve College College of Tablets in Cleveland, Ohio, on a class of artificial opioids getting elevated attention lately.

“The arrogance and ambition of Dr. Bliss did no longer permit any 2nd opinions. The put up-mortem confirmed what Bliss publicly and adamantly denied, that the bullet used to be on the left facet of the president’s physique.” — Jeffrey Reznick, PhD, senior historian with the Nationwide Library of Tablets, on the loss of life of President James Garfield.

“It be no longer fancy a terminate to-leave out in a plane shatter, the achieve you think again everything that perhaps may per chance have long gone defective [and] you fix it all, then the day after that you simply’re on the lowest possibility ever for a plane shatter.” — Jacob Ballon, MD, MPH, of Stanford College in California, on the excessive suicide possibility of sufferers hospitalized for despair within the first few days after discharge.

“We’re doing more things in this one bucket, however that bucket has a finite quantity of things it pays for.” — Adam Bruggeman, MD, a solo-put collectively surgeon in San Antonio, on declining reimbursements to surgeons below Medicare.

“Here is precise news.” — Catherine Kim, MD, MPH, of the College of Michigan in Ann Arbor, on how blood stress and ldl cholesterol control reversed elevated cardiovascular possibility in sure excessive-possibility midlife ladies.