Opinion | 'The Light Goes Out of Their Eyes in About 3 Years': What We Heard This Week

— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today's reporters

May 31, 2026

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"The light goes out of their eyes in about 3 years. This is not what they signed up for." -- Clark Coler, MD, of Swedish Medical Group in Seattle, on young physicians facing the increasingly profit-driven demands of modern healthcare.

"They feel relief, not pleasure, not joy, just relief." -- Daniel Watter, EdD, of the Morris Psychological Group in Parsippany, New Jersey, describing how men typically react when a treatment for premature ejaculation works.