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'More than anything, I think, the rise of concierge medicine is an indictment of the current health-care system.'
- Clarence Braddock, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine, on 'concierge medicine,' also known as boutique or retainer medicine. Houston Chronicle, Sept. 2.

'These images are vastly different from the kinds of images you would see at a Stanford hospital.'
- Elizabeth Zambricki, a third-year medical student, on 'Inside Terrorism: The X-Ray Project.' The exhibit features a collection of X-rays and CT scans of people who were victims of terrorism. InsideBayArea.com, Sept. 5.

'We call chronic hepatitis B a silent killer because usually those who are infected feel perfectly healthy.'
- Samuel So, MD, the Lui Hac Minh Professor in the School of Medicine and director of the Asian Liver Center, on hepatitis B and its prevalence among the Asian American population. An estimated 20,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area are infected with the disease. KGO-TV, Sept. 4.

'Depression and mental illness strike any number of people. You're not a bad person because you're affected by it.'
- Rona Hu, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and medical director of the acute psychiatric inpatient unit, on mental illness and suicide. Palo Alto Daily News, Sept. 14

'This is one of the pieces of good news about American health care that is not well known. We're living longer and spending less of that time disabled.'
- Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, points out that one factor allowing workers to stay in the labor force is that people are remaining in better health as they age. San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 12.

'The people are now empowered; even the poor segment of the population is empowered to get emergency medical care.'
- S.V. Mahadevan, MD, assistant professor of surgery, on India's collaboration with the medical school to help build the country's first 911-type emergency response system. Mahadevan will direct the training program. KGO-TV, Sept. 18.

'We have to pay a lot more attention to this. PTSD basically feeds on avoidance. The more you avoid it, the worse it gets.'
- Victor Carrion, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the Stanford Early Life Stress Research Program, on research that shows children who experience violence in urban neighborhoods may also develop post-traumatic stress disorder. San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 26.