{"id":597493,"date":"2023-01-14T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/14\/we-are-responsible-for-someone-elses-life-what-we-heard-this-week\/"},"modified":"2023-01-14T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T16:55:21","slug":"we-are-responsible-for-someone-elses-life-what-we-heard-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/14\/we-are-responsible-for-someone-elses-life-what-we-heard-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Are Responsible for Someone Else&#8217;s Life&#8217;: What We Heard This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<nav>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\" tabindex=\"15.1\" itemprop=\"articleSection\">Opinion<\/a><br \/>\n      <span>><\/span><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/what-we-heard\" tabindex=\"15.2\">What We Heard This Week<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/nav>\n<h2>\u2014 Quotable quotes heard by <em>MedPage Today<\/em>&#8216;s reporters<\/h2>\n<p>\n            by <span itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><br \/>\n            <span itemprop=\"name\">MedPage  Today Staff<\/span><br \/>\n         <\/span><br \/>\n            <span itemprop=\"contributing\"><\/span><br \/>\n                    <span itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"January 13, 2023\"><br \/>\n          January 13, 2023<br \/>\n        <\/span>\n          <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"js-main-content-region\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/articleBody\" itemid=\"#main-content-region\">\n<p>&#8220;We are responsible for someone else&#8217;s life. That&#8217;s important.&#8221;  &#8212;  Lein Torres, RN, a radiology nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital, explaining that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/102565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City nurses&#8217; strike<\/a> is about patient safety and the mental health and well-being of staff, not just compensation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;15 years of data have taught us that &#8216;watchful waiting&#8217; only leads to greater increase in child BMI, accumulation of comorbidities, and more challenges in trying to reverse some of this.&#8221;  &#8212;  Sarah Armstrong, MD, of the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research in North Carolina, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pediatrics\/obesity\/102549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Academy of Pediatrics&#8217;s new recommendations<\/a> advising young children with overweight or obesity be referred to immediate and intensive treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re spending a lot of money in scrubs for hospital systems, but has anyone stopped to ask the patients?&#8221;  &#8212;  Casey Hribar, BS, a medical student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discussing her survey about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/surgery\/generalsurgery\/102588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surgical scrub colors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was pretty prevalent in that nine of 10 insurers in terms of market share were among those named, so it&#8217;s not just one or two bad actors.&#8221;  &#8212;  Vikas Saini, MD, Lown Institute president, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/102564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medicare Advantage companies<\/a> topping his organization&#8217;s annual Shkreli Awards list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As dramatic as these findings are, on some level, they&#8217;re not so unexpected.&#8221;  &#8212;  Louisa Holaday, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, on how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/publichealthpolicy\/equity-in-medicine\/102563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black medical residents<\/a> are burdened with more debt than other racial and ethnic groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This area of research is currently of great interest since it may be an indication of some kind of inflammatory process in the brain.&#8221;  &#8212;  Caroline Graff, MD, PhD, of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, about new research showing a blood-based biomarker that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/alzheimersdisease\/102600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detected Alzheimer&#8217;s disease<\/a> about 10 years before symptom onset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vast majority of clergy embrace a medical understanding of the causes and potential treatments of depression.&#8221;  &#8212;  Anna Holleman, PhD, of Duke University in North Carolina, on a survey of church leaders unveiling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/psychiatry\/depression\/102590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">views of depression<\/a> that were largely in line with medical experts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pandemic has exacerbated existing trends in food insecurity.&#8221;  &#8212;  Cindy Leung, ScD, MPH, of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, on a consequence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/primarycare\/dietnutrition\/102581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> that hit older adults particularly hard.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/what-we-heard\/102633\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lawanda Mote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion &gt; What We Heard This Week \u2014 Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today&#8217;s reporters by MedPage Today Staff January 13, 2023 &#8220;We are responsible for someone else&#8217;s life. That&#8217;s important.&#8221; &#8212; Lein Torres, RN, a radiology nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital, explaining that the New York City nurses&#8217; strike is about patient safety and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26757,3476],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-597493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-responsible","8":"category-someone"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}