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"You need to have peace." —Keith Humphreys, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, on the challenge of addressing psychiatric disorders in Iraq. He is part of a group trying to rebuild Iraq's mental health-care system. Washington Post, March 6. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/05/AR2006030500948_pf.html
"Sleeping is not logical. If you apply logic to it, you're going to screw it up. Think of a 9-year-old. A 9-year-old doesn't apply logic to sleep. He just does it." —Rafael Pelayo, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, discussing insomnia. San Francisco Chronicle, March 5. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/05/BUG52HI5RS1.DTL&;hw=stanford&sn=026&sc=112
"There's only one company that makes the drug, and they can decide what it's worth." —Richard Hoppe, MD, the Henry S. Kaplan-Harry Lebeson Professor of Cancer, on the price hike of the cancer drug Mustargen and doctors' outrage over the change. New York Times, March 11. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/business/12price.html?_r=1&;adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1142269330-BgHbTm5kY2oRJUY0iphxPw