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'More and More Patients in Less and Less Time': What We Heard This Week

— Quotable quotes heard by Ƶ's reporters

Ƶ MedicalToday
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"It feels like we're being asked to see more and more patients in less and less time." -- Meghan Lelonek, MD, a hospitalist with Sound Physicians and PeaceHealth in Washington, who helped lead a unionization effort.

"School segregation really stands out to be the most important." -- Xi Chen, PhD, of the Yale School of Public Health in Connecticut, linking early life experiences with cognitive, racial disparities.

"There's enough to raise serious concerns and to act now." -- Sanjay Sisodiya, PhD, of University College London, discussing the potential effects of climate change on neurologic diseases.

"Once they get a scope or colonoscopy, we find that there's something else that is going on." -- Islam Mohamed, MD, of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, discussing colorectal cancer in teens.

"This third case does not alter CDC's overall risk assessment." -- Nirav Shah, MD, JD, principal deputy director of the CDC, on the third human case of bird flu in the U.S.

"You can start with just one store." -- A CVS pharmacist, as more groups vote to join the national pharmacy union.

"The probability of success is significantly reduced." -- Mitchell Lawlor, PhD, of Sydney Eye Hospital and the Save Sight Institute in Australia, discussing glaucoma implant combined with cataract surgery.

"[Phytophotodermatitis] happens not just because of margaritas, but mainly because of margaritas." -- Raman Madan, MD, of Northwell Health in Glen Cove, New York, describing a common summer phototoxic skin reaction.

"The association ... is not completely explained by suicide." -- Marion Opatowski, PhD, of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, discussing premature mortality in women with premenstrual disorders in Sweden.