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A prescription you can’t fill at the pharmacy

DR. ROBERT ZARR, A PEDIATRICIAN IN Washington, D.C., often prescribes therapies that don’t come in a bottle or a pill pack. They’re redeemable only outdoors, in the fresh air of a local park. These “nature prescriptions”—spend an hour each week playing tennis, for instance, or explore all the soccer fields near your home—might sound whimsical. But Zarr is serious about his scripts, which are recorded in his patients’ electronic

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