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“Various studies have shown that [with complementary and alternative therapies] the patient’s satisfaction is markedly increased, and there is a shortening of the length of the hospital stay.”
~ Gulshan Sethi, MD
“The NIH State-of-the-Science Conference concluded that [antipsychotics and barbituates] have significant risks and cannot be recommended for the treatment of insomnia. So I think that’s important for clinicians to remember.”
~ Sonia Ancoli-Israel
Some people also have been advocating echocardiograms, but I don’t think I’ll be out of line with this audience to say that including echocardiograms is a bit on the fringe of what we’re talking about, and really the argument centers more on using the ECG as a primary screening tool.
-Ben Levine, MD
"Knowing that efficacy is not 100% and that comorbidities can add to a poor response, we realize that some patients need to move on to second-line therapies."
Charles Butrick
“I would say we probably need to define another category for severe MR, which is regurgitant volume above 100 mL, which would be a massive degree of MR.”
-Maurice Sarano, MD
