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How about this?  We can look more trustworthy .  But we can't look more competent. According to new research,  we can alter our facial features in ways that make us look more trustworthy, but don’t have the same ability to appear more competent, pointing out the limits and potential we have in visually representing ourselves—from dating and career-networking sites to social media posts. “Our findings show that facial cues conveying trustworthiness are malleable while facial cues conveying competence and ability are significantly less so,” explains Jonathan Freeman, an assistant professor in NYU’s Department of Psychology and the study’s senior author, at newswise.com. “The results suggest you can influence to an extent how trustworthy others perceive you to be in a facial photo, but perceptions of your competence or ability are considerably less able to be changed.” Why?  Judgments of trustworthiness are based on the face’s dynamic musculature that can be slig...

I found this pretty amazing.  There's a poet lurking in almost every physician. According to newswise.com,  future physician Paul Rocco Allegra had this to say after encountering death in the anatomy lab, where he and his classmates dissected cadavers. Metal gurney against preserved flesh, maybe this isn’t the first time we’ve met … And this,  in imagining fleeting moments when, in life, the person whose corpse lies before him, might have crossed paths with him.  I hesitate to look at your face, because maybe, just maybe, you’ve looked at mine. The Web site quotes  Allegra, who says, “You see painted fingernails, or freckles or hair,” haunting signs that this preserved mass of organic material was once a person – a human being like him. “You need to stop and reflect and analyze, and poetry does that.” Writes another student,  My pronunciations are shameful. Erythematous. Blah. My cheeks burn. Will patients call me doctor if ...