{"id":617629,"date":"2023-03-13T17:50:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T22:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/you-dont-see-the-sun-what-we-heard-this-week\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T17:50:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T22:50:25","slug":"you-dont-see-the-sun-what-we-heard-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/you-dont-see-the-sun-what-we-heard-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You Don&#8217;t See the Sun&#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=\"March 12, 2023\"><br \/>\n          March 12, 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;You don&#8217;t see the sun. You don&#8217;t smell the flowers.&#8221;  &#8212;  Oleksandr Rikhter, MD, a top trauma physician from Ukraine, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/aaos\/103446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">day-to-day lives of healthcare workers<\/a> after the country was invaded by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even asking one question routinely  &#8212;  how do you manage your stress?  &#8212;  can be very helpful for patients to open up and discuss this common condition.&#8221;  &#8212;  Ambar Kulshreshtha, MD, PhD, of Emory University School of Medicine, discussing his research about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/dementia\/103420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stress and cognitive impairment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Less than 5% of the people who would benefit from these medications are getting them.&#8221;  &#8212;  Robert Cronin, MD, of the Ohio State University, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/hematologyoncology\/hematology\/103456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">small percentage<\/a> of sickle cell disease patients who have access to appropriate pain medications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The San Francisco health order is a ray of appropriate behavior in a gray wilderness.&#8221;  &#8212;  Jeoff B. Gordon, MD, MPH, a retired family doctor in Santa Cruz, on San Francisco&#8217;s orders that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/exclusives\/103432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health workers must continue to wear face masks<\/a> in indoor health facilities and be vaccinated against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are the people that are more educated in public health science than ever before, in pandemic crisis management than ever before. How do you replace people like that?&#8221;  &#8212;  Jonathon P. Leider, PhD, of the University of Minnesota, on his research that showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/publichealthpolicy\/publichealth\/103457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">46% of public health workers in state and local agencies left their positions<\/a> over the last 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is truly striking how just one class of substances was implicated so frequently in child poisoning deaths.&#8221;  &#8212;  Christopher Gaw, MD, MBE, of the Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia, on opioids&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pediatrics\/generalpediatrics\/103433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contribution to fatal poisonings<\/a> among children ages 5 and younger in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine going to a job where we think there&#8217;s an 80% chance that you&#8217;re going to be abused. Who would want to come to work? Yet our colleagues continue to show up.&#8221;  &#8212;  U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, on the disinformation that has led <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/103491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patients to become vitriolic<\/a> toward healthcare workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The misinformation and misleading messages and social posts are part of an organized political campaign that is hurtful not only to our physicians and staff, but also to our community.&#8221;  &#8212;  A spokesperson from Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/exclusives\/103425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the death threats sent to the hospital&#8217;s doctors<\/a> over its COVID-19 policies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/what-we-heard\/103496\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Yuri Fetzer<\/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 March 12, 2023 &#8220;You don&#8217;t see the sun. You don&#8217;t smell the flowers.&#8221; &#8212; Oleksandr Rikhter, MD, a top trauma physician from Ukraine, on the day-to-day lives of healthcare workers after the country was invaded by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,4286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-617629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dont","8":"category-heard"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617629","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=617629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}