A Voice in the OT Wilderness : September 2009

Still Impressionable September 29, 2009 4:50 PM by OTCM: What experiences in your career have awakened you to beliefs you didn't know you had, and/or made you change your mind about any of them? For me, it took providing disability case management (DCM) services to injured workers to find out how elitist I Read More...
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Po-tay-toe, Po-tah-toe...Tuber September 21, 2009 5:36 PM by OTCM: What strategies do you use to remind yourself to use person-centered language in your professional communication? I still see the word "patient" used a lot in the health care literature, even though the concept of "person-centered service" is becoming Read More...
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The things I find via Facebook! September 14, 2009 5:30 PM by OTCM: Of all the misunderstandings I’ve heard or read about what OT is and/or what we supposedly do, this one is a real corker: According to a blog by a British OT with whom I’ve connected on Facebook, a member (I assume by her title: Baroness Finley) of the Read More...
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ADL activity: baking a file into a cake September 8, 2009 4:04 PM by OTCM: As I mentioned in my 8/24/09 post, some people consider being placed in a nursing home (long-term care/LTC facility) tantamount to a life sentence in a prison. The stereotype is powerful enough to make some people view even assisted living facilities Read More...
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