Opinion | 'Do You Want the Toyota or the Lexus?': What We Heard This Week

— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today's reporters

July 12, 2026

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"They said, 'Do you want the Toyota or the Lexus?'" -- Christina Prescott, MD, PhD, of NYU Langone Health in New York City, discussing how her aunt was sold a pricey multifocal lens for cataract surgery, then learned she wasn't a good candidate for it.

"One way to think about transient global amnesia is as a temporary power outage affecting only the brain's memory center." -- Laura Stein, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, explaining journalist Katie Couric's temporary memory loss episode.