‘They Do Not Have the Right Tools to Do This Job’: What We Heard This Week

“They are fully aware they do not have the right tools to do this job.” — Sebastian Palmqvist, MD, PhD, of Lund University in Sweden, discussing why primary care physicians need blood tests to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease more effectively.

“There was just such resistance.” — Steven Green, PhD, of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, discussing apprehensions about using former President Donald Trump to endorse the COVID-19 vaccine.

“It opens up a whole lot of doors for ways to automate some of the more menial tasks and the documentation tasks that clinicians don’t love to do.” — Ashwin Nayak, MD, of Stanford University in California, on his study finding that ChatGPT can write good clinical notes.

“I’m really hoping that Threads has staying power.” — Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, an emergency physician and dean of the Yale School of Public Health, on the new social media platform Threads for online medical networking.

“There is a significant chance that cow feces are coming into direct contact with the udder, and then through milking, there can be contamination of milk with cow feces.” — Megin Nichols, DVM, MPH, deputy director of the CDC Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, explaining why drinking raw milk can be risky.

“Most of the time when my patients use words that I don’t know, it just makes you feel old.” — Jessi Gold, MD, MS, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, on the new social media term “bed rotting.”

“It really is what I would call an information problem.” — Sarah Clark, MPH, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, co-creator of a national poll that found health portals for children are underused.

“What you see when you actually take a close look at the products is that it’s really a hot mess.” — Pieter Cohen, MD, of Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts, reporting that 89% of dietary sports supplements analyzed didn’t have accurate ingredient labels.

“Bottom line, I think this reinforces the need for preventive care in our system.” — Sanford Roberts, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, after seeing better survival for emergency surgery Medicare patients who logged a visit with a primary care provider in the year prior.

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