But in the extreme overwork of the last few years, with everyone putting in longer hours and busier days, lunch dates, casual banter, friendly drop-ins slipped, if not disappeared entirely.
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Well, as the media has played a larger role in the dissemination of medical information, and as practicing physicians in general have become busier and not always reachable, America has turned to doctors on TV who are always reachable, in part as a result of a rich network of social media and websites which provide consumers advice and self-help on a myriad of common medical conditions.
But as people get busier and rural America shrinks, volunteers become harder to find.
His opposite number Sergey Narubin was the busier and the Perm keeper pushed a decent shot from Johnson away before Dempsey's follow-up was cleared over the bar.
"It's a slow start and we hope thing will be busier by the autumn, and we'd like to think by the end of the year we will exceed the target of 50 births, " he said.
This is especially the case in the white-hot Chinese market, where hoteliers and business travellers are busier than ever.
"With Easter on the horizon, trains will become much busier, and as a result we are upping our game for the holiday period, " he said.
Nights and weekends were even busier.
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At the age of 87, Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdes is busier than ever.
There will be 200 new buses and more buses on the busier routes.
The show was packed with attendees and the expo floor was busier than I can remember in the last seven years I have attended.
It is undoubtedly true that the expansion will increase noise and make the area even busier than it is currently, but the people who live around Heathrow will also benefit from the economic stimulus that it represents.
The system certainly feels a lot busier now the track and field events have started.
Its own youth theatre is "busier than ever" and more community classes have arrived.
Together, they discovered that Rome has become a lot busier in this day and age.
When it comes to the confluence of politics and entertainment, there is no busier intersection than the Vineyard in peak season.
It helps ease into a new career and when they get a little busier they open their own store online or even with a store front.
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Despite that positive start, as the half wore on Robinson became the busier of the two goalkeepers and he had to react quickly to turn Brian McBride's shot over the bar.
He added the transport system would be able to cope with the added pressure as Londoners would "also recognise that London will be busier than what is normally and as a result they will modify their transport behaviour".
The champion was the busier fighter in the second and third as he landed the cleaner punches, with his jab proving a dangerous weapon, while also proving an evasive target as Munroe was made to miss far too often.
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Thanks to cloud and virtualization, data centers will be even busier places than they have been.
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London Ambulance Service said this year's event, which attracted a record 36, 391 runners, was "busier" than usual, with participants and spectators affected by the heat.
By 2002 and the Golden Jubilee, Britain comes across as a busier, lonelier, more cynical place.
The post office is busier than ever, ensuring that the vital parcels and letters from home are distributed in time.
So the council is gradually working to remove the stones from the busier stretches of road - laying tarmac to ease and speed the traffic.
United - with only one clean sheet to their name this season - fielded centre-halves Wes Brown and Jonny Evans - in for the injured Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand - but it was their front men who were the busier pairing.
The economic calendar gets busier on Thursday with jobless claims, producer prices, industrial production and the Philadelphia Fed Survey.
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