{"id":821450,"date":"2025-01-20T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/we-lost-our-community-we-lost-our-neighborhood-what-we-heard-this-week\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:12:08","slug":"we-lost-our-community-we-lost-our-neighborhood-what-we-heard-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/we-lost-our-community-we-lost-our-neighborhood-what-we-heard-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Lost Our Community, We Lost Our Neighborhood&#8217;: What We Heard This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business <\/p>\n<div>\n<nav>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\" tabindex=\"15.1\" itemprop=\"articleSection\">Perspectives<\/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>Business \u2014<br \/>\n      Quotable quotes heard by <em>MedPage Today<\/em>&#8216;s reporters<\/h2>\n<p>\n      <span><br \/>\n                  by<br \/>\n          <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><\/p>\n<p>              <span itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"January 19, 2025\"><br \/>\n          January 19, 2025<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-main-content-region\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/articleBody\" itemid=\"#main-content-region\">\n<p>&#8220;Not only did we lose our home. We lost our community, we lost our neighborhood.&#8221;  &#8212;  Sion Roy, MD, of Harbor UCLA Medical Center, on the devastation from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/exclusives\/113793\" target=\"_blank\">California fires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We now know that half of dementia risk is preventable.&#8221;  &#8212;  Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, of New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, discussing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/dementia\/113756\" target=\"_blank\">projected rise in dementia cases<\/a> in the coming decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite not knowing whether these drugs work, prices exceed $1 million a year.&#8221;  &#8212;  Benjamin Rome, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital in Boston, discussing an HHS report about the FDA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/washington-watch\/fdageneral\/113802\" target=\"_blank\">accelerated approval pathway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is just another one of the multitude of issues we&#8217;ve seen with allowing wealth-extraction entities to get involved in healthcare.&#8221;  &#8212;  Robert McNamara, MD, chief medical officer of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/113759\" target=\"_blank\">private equity-backed healthcare company<\/a> filed for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we generally only think of stress as a negative experience, in moderation it can promote better performance.&#8221;  &#8212;  Jake Awtry, MD, of Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital, on a study about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/surgery\/generalsurgery\/113813\" target=\"_blank\">surgeon stress<\/a> during the first 5 minutes of surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past, you didn&#8217;t hear anti-vax rhetoric be such an explicit part of political platforms.&#8221;  &#8212;  Timothy Caulfield, professor of health law and science policy at the University Alberta in Canada, on the growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/113726\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;medical freedom&#8221; movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These areas are facing a persistent challenge of a physician shortage and will surely benefit.&#8221;  &#8212;  Hao Yu, PhD, a health policy expert at Harvard Medical School in Boston, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/hospitalbasedmedicine\/graduatemedicaleducation\/113823\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts dropped residency requirements<\/a> for international medical graduates.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/what-we-heard\/113831\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Tyisha Damron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perspectives &gt; What We Heard This Week \u2014 Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today&#8217;s reporters by MedPage Today Staff January 19, 2025 &#8220;Not only did we lose our home. We lost our community, we lost our neighborhood.&#8221; &#8212; Sion Roy, MD, of Harbor UCLA Medical Center, on the devastation from the California fires. &#8220;We now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":821451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3393,35067,1197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community","category-heath","category-neighborhood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821450","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=821450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}