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"Both involve hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror." —David Gaba, MD, associate dean of immersive and simulation-based learning and professor of anesthesia, on how pilots and the aviation industry can provide lessons to medical professionals about improving patient safey. New York Times, Oct. 31.
"Food irradiation remains an underutilized technology."—Spyros Andreopoulos, director emeritus of the Office of Communication & Public Affairs, on how expanding food irradiation practices could prevent food poisoning outbreaks such as the recent incident involving E. coli-contaminated spinach. San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 23.
"They just seem to lose for a period of time a chunk of their lives."—David Spiegel, PhD, the Jack, Samuel and Lulu Willson Professor in Medicine, on dissociative fugue, a rare psychiatric disorder that recently was in the news when a man with no memory of his past was found by the police in Denver. New York Times, Oct. 24.
"You'd think from all the media attention that all they were doing was porn and gambling, but it really runs the gamut."—Elias Aboujaoude, MD, clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, on problematic Internet use among Americans, which he described in a recent study. Wall Street Journal, Oct. 24.
"This is very encouraging and promising, but it's not enough yet to change practice." —Heather Wakelee, MD, assistant professor of medicine, on new findings that CT scans could lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. A larger clinical trial on their effectiveness is now being conducted. San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 26.