"Since many doctors, especially surgeons, are not the most touchy-feely people, it's important to have navigators who can serially engage patients over time and give them information in manageable bits and bites." -- Samuel Cykert, MD, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on the importance of nurse navigators in oncology.
"I look at this as a marathon toward interoperability." -- Seema Verma, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, on federal efforts to promote interoperability of electronic record systems.
"Having worked on these guidelines, what's incredible to me is that we're still learning how to do it better." -- Harold Burstein, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, on new breast cancer management guidelines.
"I don't know what the purpose would be of finding an equivalently bad process that might also have higher levels of complications." -- Donna Mazloomdoost, MD, of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland, on how postmarketing studies on vaginal mesh studies should be designed.
"For patients whose risk for infection is high, it is terrific news that there is now a proven topical strategy that can lower that risk." -- Susan Huang, MD, of the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, on advantages of decolonizing patients positive for MRSA carriage.
"Primary care physicians -- and their teams -- have an incredible amount of responsibility on their plates." -- Richard Wender, MD, of the American Cancer Society, reacting to a suggestion that primary care providers need more education about cancer treatments.
"You would never expect your cancer treatment to be denied because you've had bad back pain." -- Katie Keith, JD, MPH, of Georgetown University, on the dangers of cheap health insurance lacking ACA-mandated protections.