"The trains worry me more than the planes," the official said.
Earlier this year hundreds of Shanghainese protested against a proposed extension to the city's maglev train, worried about health risks.
"What happened before you had that is someone was overloaded; they were worried about moving trains, worried about other things," Mr. Prendergast said, adding that now, advocates are responsible for "the care and well-being of those people on stranded trains".
They have conversations in artists' studios, visit libraries for the latest novels, assemble with friends at Sunday lunchtimes, play the piano, are interested in fashion, gaze at a pleasant face across the aisle of a bus or a train, worry about work and how to find it.
There were rumours of injury, speculation over his commitment to training, worries over his wavering form, suggestions that the triple world record holder might even be psychologically damaged – from last year's false start in the world championships final, from the car crash in June, from his defeat at the hands of his training partner Yohan Blake in Kingston, Jamaica, just five weeks ago.
In turn, attending physicians report the following barriers to an active role in trials: time constraints, lack of staff and training, worry about the impact on their relationship with patients, concern for patients, loss of professional autonomy, difficulty with the consent procedure, and lack of any reward, recognition or interest in the research question [ 16].
Frequently mentioned barriers to clinician participation are time constraints, lack of staff and training, worry about the impact on doctor-patient relationship, concern for patients, loss of professional autonomy, difficulty with the consent procedure, lack of rewards and recognition, and an insufficiently interesting question [ 4].
"When I was in Japan, and also when I came here, I don't think I've spent a season or a spring training without worrying if I will make the rotation," he said.
I'm more focused in training, not worrying: 'Gosh, I've got to be at work in an hour.'" And then there's the increasing prestige of the sport itself.
Carter says all universities with any form of teacher training are worried about the changes because they make it much harder to plan for future demand.
