'What a Waste of Everybody's Time': What We Heard This Week

— Quotable quotes heard by 's reporters

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"What a waste of everybody's time." -- Sabin Dang, MD, of the Retina Institute in Missouri, on long waits for insurers to respond to prior authorization requests in ophthalmology.

"I'm not going to tell patients to stop their multivitamin." -- Pieter Cohen, MD, of Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts, discussing new data about multivitamin use and mortality.

"UV rays have become stronger for sure." -- Pooja Shah, MD, of Northwell Health in New York, discussing why sunscreen is important for skin protection.

"You still either have to jump through hoops at your own institution, or more commonly, send people to another institution." -- Daniel Grossman, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, on how ob/gyns practice in states with abortion restrictions.

"This is potentially paradigm-shifting data." -- John Buse, MD, PhD, of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, on the percentage of patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes who had hypercortisolism.

"I've never had a complication, infection, or any problem whatsoever. Everybody's happy." -- Edmond Cabbabe, MD, a plastic surgeon in Missouri, discussing his experience treating family members.

"Birthing people no longer have the option to legally terminate congenital anomalies, especially those that are highly incompatible with life." -- Alison Gemmill, PhD, of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, after Texas infant deaths increased following a ban on early pregnancy abortion.

"Allowing these deviations didn't have any harmful effects." -- Roy Herbst, MD, PhD, of the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut, discussing broader enrollment criteria in cancer trials.

"Primary care and maternal care are very siloed." -- Jessamy Bagenal, MBBS, MPH, an editor for Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, discussing earlier gestational diabetes screening and treatment.