 I'm Beth Lyles. I am an internal medicine physician and a primary care researcher at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. Well, I am a primary care physician, so I understand the demands and the challenges of the job. A person comes in, they have the reason that made them schedule the appointment in the first place. It could be that they have a sinus infection, or that the person has just fallen and injured her hip, or maybe a skin condition, so it's really important that they take the time to diagnose that correctly and counsel the person. But then also it's really important to pay attention to chronic conditions, like diabetes, and make sure that's being managed adequately. We always try to take the opportunity to screen and try to prevent diseases like colorectal cancer and breast cancer, so it's a lot to do in a short visit. As a primary care researcher, my focus is on topics that will enable us to be more effective as primary care physicians. For example, one of the projects I'm working on is how do you effectively and efficiently talk about mammography screening for breast cancer with women in their 40s? Because the guidelines about this differ. Some of the guidelines say that women should start screening every year or every other year in their 40s, and other guidelines say that it's not that simple. We should talk about it, we should talk about the benefits, the benefits being a small chance of detecting breast cancer, the risks being the false positive result, radiation exposure, anxiety, worry, all of those things. How do we discuss that in primary care? Quickly, accurately, so there are decision aids that help us and I'm reviewing them and trying to test out different ones and compare them to figure out what's best. I like to exercise when I'm not working and when I'm not spending time with my family. I swim, I run sometimes, I lift weights quite a bit, and I like to ride a bicycle. But I just like the process of training for something, of seeing my incremental progress. There's just something about that systematic process that is appealing to me and satisfying to me. It's a little bit like research actually. I can actually appreciate when I've written something a little more succinctly or summarized something a little more coherently or come up with an idea that's new.