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Article NEJM Audio Interview Interview with Dr. Tait Shanafelt on causes of burnout and efforts to improve support for clinicians. (13:21) Download In late 2016, a primary care physician with a thriving practice decided it was time to shut her doors. She felt her retirement was forced on her after she’d spent a year in the grips of her health care system’s new electronic health record (EHR). It was her fourth EHR over her years of doctoring, but this transition felt different. Instead of improving her efficiency, the new system took time away from her patients, added hours of clerical work to each day, and supplanted her clinical judgment with the government’s metrics for “meaningful use” of information technology in health care. “We’re spending our days doing the wrong work,” argues Christine Sinsky, a practicing internist and vice president for professional satisfaction at the American Medical Association, who has conducted several studies tracking how doctors spend ...

Exercising … Your Face Leer en español  JAN. 10, 2018 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Share Tweet Pin Email More Save Photo Credit Happy Face Yoga  These are among the facial exercises shown to significantly reduce some of the signs of aging, according to an interesting new study of the effects of repeating specific movements on people’s appearance. To learn more, read  “Facial Exercises May Make You Look 3 Years Younger.” Cheek Sculpting This exercise helps create a better cheekbone shape. It tightens all of your cheek muscles and helps lift the middle part of your face.  1.  Smile without showing any teeth, while rolling your lips outward as if you were trying to show as much lip as possible. Try to smile with the corners of your mouth as you force all your cheek muscles up. You should feel a slight “burn” in your mouth corners. 2.  Place your index fingers just above the corners of your mouth, pressi...

Outcomes of sport and physical activity  What Young Children Identify as the Outcomes of their Participation in Sport and Physical Activity ABSTRACT Objectives:   The purpose of this study was to investigate what young children considered as being the outcomes of their participation in sport and physical activity.   Methods:  This study adopted a drawing elicitation method with 80 children (42 boys and 38 girls) aged 7-10 from two primary schools in the North of England.  Results:  Regardless of  sex , ‘getting fitter’ was considered a main outcome of participation in sport and physical activity. Boys also identified ‘becoming muscular’ as a main outcome, while girls considered ‘making new friends’ as a main outcome.  Conclusions:  Parents, teacher, and coaches who are responsible for constructing sport and physical activity experiences for children need to ensure children are given opportunities to learn about the outcomes o...