It's a difficult burden to provide care and treatment in a climate in which medical malpractice is one of the potential outcomes. It certainly has to change the care they provide.

When I take a new patient and they fail treatment, it's easy to feel more optimistic, because I can see we have tools in toolbox that appear to work.

Over 90 percent of patients with APL are cured because of overall treatment of chemotherapy and retinoic acid, ... If you're cured, you're cured, but if it would happen to relapse, another arsenic derivative can be used as treatment to cure the disease the second time around.

when a patient does not respond to treatment appropriately.

There are people who feel malpractice cases go away because someone apologizes. I don't believe that. They go away based on their merit. Whether there's an apology or an acknowledgment of fault doesn't seem to be a key factor in the furtherance and continuing litigation in malpractice cases. The fact is more important than the admission of the fact.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is not recommending any treatment between now and spring. If treatment is selected, spring is the best time to do it. Hydrilla goes through natural growth cycles - it's going into a dormant stage right now.