In spot of our accustomed "What We Heard This Week" feature, and arsenic portion of our year-end wrap-ups, we've selected immoderate of the champion quotes our reporters heard successful 2022.
"This is wherefore God gave america 2 arms -- 1 for the flu changeable and the different 1 for the COVID shot." -- White House COVID-19 effect coordinator Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, discussing the fall booster campaign.
"What's mild astir hospitals astatine oregon adjacent the breaking point?" -- Clyde Yancy, MD, of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine successful Chicago, connected the framing of Omicron arsenic conscionable "mild" backmost successful January.
"They're astir apt lying done their teeth overmuch of the time." -- David Hyman, MD, JD, of Georgetown University Law Center, connected insurers' declaration negotiations with in-network providers.
"This is astir apt the astir evidently fake information I person seen." -- Kyle Sheldrick, MBBS, PhD, campaigner astatine the University of New South Wales, connected the perchance fraudulent information underpinning an infamous survey of vitamin C for sepsis.
"It was similar idiosyncratic abruptly blew a canine whistle successful my ear." -- Gregory Poland, MD, of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, describing however helium developed tinnitus portion driving backmost from the infirmary aft receiving his 2nd COVID-19 vaccine successful March.
"We don't conscionable flip 'em a scalpel and say, 'Hey, bully luck, I'm going to beryllium down the thoroughfare drinking a beer.'" -- Christopher R. Porta, MD, of Madigan Army Medical Center successful Tacoma, Washington, commenting successful April astir the rigorous oversight of surgical trainees.
"Fentanyl is similar the boogeyman, it's ubiquitous, it's everywhere. It'll creep successful your mask, and there's thing you tin do." -- Jon Zibbell, PhD, of RTI International successful North Carolina, connected a CDC video utilized to pass of fentanyl menace to police that whitethorn mislead officers astir their hazard of vulnerability and overdose.
"It's, 'Oh, the caregiver tin bash it' ... There's lone truthful overmuch 1 idiosyncratic tin do." -- Erika Pacheco, RN, from Michigan, astatine the National Nurses March successful Washington successful May wherever a oversea of nurses called for harmless staffing ratios, just pay, and an extremity to unit against healthcare workers.
"So portion up...but it would beryllium prudent to debar excessively galore caramel macchiatos portion much grounds brews." -- Christina Wee, MD, MPH, lawman exertion of Annals of Internal Medicine, connected the mortality benefits of drinking java everyday, adjacent with a small sugar.
"Arguably a authorities can't prohibition an FDA-approved drug." -- Greer Donley, JD, of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, speaking successful July connected whether authorities bans connected abortions volition extend to the termination pill.
"[It's] the reverse of the aged saying, 'it's gone, but not forgotten': Polio is forgotten, but it's not gone." -- William Schaffner, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center successful Nashville, Tennessee, speaking successful August astir however eradication of poliovirus isn't going to beryllium arsenic casual arsenic erstwhile thought.
"The value is we're not cows." -- Rainey Horwitz, MS, a aesculapian pupil astatine St. Louis University School of Medicine, commenting successful October connected the information determination are really an mean of 10,280 nervus fibers successful the clitoris, not the 8,000 antecedently assumed based connected a survey of cows.
"Yeah, malpractice is simply a concern, but I'm truly freaking retired astir hurting someone." -- Linda Isbell, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talking astir her team's survey that looked astatine perspectives of exigency clinicians connected lawsuits and diligent harm successful November.
"The mean doc is doing 41 of these a week." -- American Medical Association President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, discussing the large summation successful anterior authorization requests implicit the respective years.
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