‘We Lost Our Community, We Lost Our Neighborhood’: What We Heard This Week

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Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today‘s reporters

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MedPage Today Staff

January 19, 2025

“Not only did we lose our home. We lost our community, we lost our neighborhood.” — Sion Roy, MD, of Harbor UCLA Medical Center, on the devastation from the California fires.

“We now know that half of dementia risk is preventable.” — Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, of New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, discussing the projected rise in dementia cases in the coming decades.

“Despite not knowing whether these drugs work, prices exceed $1 million a year.” — Benjamin Rome, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, discussing an HHS report about the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway.

“This is just another one of the multitude of issues we’ve seen with allowing wealth-extraction entities to get involved in healthcare.” — Robert McNamara, MD, chief medical officer of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, after a private equity-backed healthcare company filed for bankruptcy.

“While we generally only think of stress as a negative experience, in moderation it can promote better performance.” — Jake Awtry, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, on a study about surgeon stress during the first 5 minutes of surgery.

“In the past, you didn’t hear anti-vax rhetoric be such an explicit part of political platforms.” — Timothy Caulfield, professor of health law and science policy at the University Alberta in Canada, on the growing “medical freedom” movement.

“These areas are facing a persistent challenge of a physician shortage and will surely benefit.” — Hao Yu, PhD, a health policy expert at Harvard Medical School in Boston, after Massachusetts dropped residency requirements for international medical graduates.