{"id":51514,"date":"2017-10-19T09:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=51514"},"modified":"2017-10-19T09:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:01:25","slug":"saper-serves-as-guest-editor-medical-clinics-of-north-america-sept-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2017\/10\/19\/saper-serves-as-guest-editor-medical-clinics-of-north-america-sept-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Saper Serves as Guest Editor, Medical Clinics of North America Sept. Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/10\/COM-Saper-magazine-e1508351826211.png\" alt=\"COM Saper magazine\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-51516\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor of Family Medicine Robert Saper, MD, served as guest editor for the Medical Clinics of North America September 2017 issue. BUSM\u2019s Katherine Gergan Barnett, MD, assistant professor of family medicine, and Paula Gardiner, MD, associate professor of family medicine, contributed to the issue.<\/p>\n<p>As guest editor, Saper wrote a preface on the importance of Integrative Medicine and Health (IMH) and how it can be utilized to improve US health care. \u201cUltimately, as IMH research and clinical models mature and are increasingly incorporated into health care, medicine will become more patient-centered, relationship-centered and interprofessional,\u201d Saper said.<\/p>\n<p>Barnett authored \u201cIn Pursuit of the Fourth Aim in Health Care: The Joy of Practice,\u201d which explains how larger systems changes in the medical field need to be made in order to prevent \u201cburnout\u201d among physicians. \u201cMore than 50 percent of US physicians are now experiencing burnout\u201d as a result of increased demands of health care provider productivity, which ultimately affect patient care, said Barnett.<\/p>\n<p>In the same issue, Gardiner coauthored \u201cIntegrative Medicine for Insomnia,\u201d which supports the use of mindfulness and yoga as integrative approaches to treat insomnia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Family Medicine Robert Saper, MD, discussed the importance of integrated medicine and how it could impact the future of health care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51528,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51514\/revisions\/51528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}