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• Patient Care
• Rehabilitation

Litigation
by Jason Marketti

I have never been hauled into court over what I have or have not done. No jury has appraised me for what I look like and no attorney has battered me on the stand. I recently read Gloria Allred's book "Fight Back and Win." I think if she took on the health Read More...

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Progression
by Jason Marketti

Therapy treatments should show progression, and insurance companies will approve treatments as long as the patient will progress. This is probably why few PTs are in hospice care. But what about PD and dementia-related diseases that are slowly progressive Read More...

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Money Makers
by Jason Marketti

I have thought of a new way to supplement my income. I am going to sell space on the back of my name badge. What!?! You see, we have lanyards that we use for our name badges and often times my name badge gets turned around and my name is not shown, so Read More...

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Health Care Unions
by Jason Marketti

I got to thinking, what if therapy was part of a union which would help us keep patient-to-therapist ratios to a limit, allow us 40 hours a work week no matter if the case load is there or not, and limit our productivity standard to 80 percent with a Read More...

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Reading My Documentation
by Jason Marketti

Before computors I wrote all my notes out in long hand and could scrible the "n's" and "m's" or add a dot above the word if I wasnt sure the word had and i or an e. There was no spell check with red underlnes or grren wavy lines if the sentances didn't Read More...

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Chairs, Stairs and Ramps: Part II
by Jason Marketti

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a PT not writing a gait goal for a patient and me walking with them. Apparently this was done to thwart the insurance company. Insurance companies are notorious for looking at gait goals and discharging a patient when Read More...

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PT’s Time
by Jason Marketti

Recently I had a list of what I thought were difficult patients. One particular patient was actively vomiting in the morning. I spoke with the nurse who stated she needed to call the MD to get something for the patient because of this. I found the PT Read More...

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Keeping it Exciting
by Jason Marketti

I like action sports. Something with a bang, an unexpected ending, something excitable. What I really love is watching the UFC on Spike TV. I dream of me standing there in the octagon against Chuck Liddell swinging my left - right combo haymakers landing Read More...

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Let’s Work Together So We Are A Team
by Jason Marketti

My patients often inspire me to continue in my career as a PTA. Many times I have contemplated quitting, retiring, vanishing from the "therapy scene", only to reappear, rejuvenated by one or more of the patients I have seen. One patient in particular, Read More...

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