Last week something was said during rounds that I'm still angry about.  We were discussing a new admission.  Since my case load was low, I asked if I needed to see the patient.  In response, I was told the patient had been given to the young, pretty therapist because that was who he'd asked for.  That statement is wrong.  ...

Tomorrow morning my department is going to have a breakfast for all the PTs to celebrate PT month.  The food will be provided by the OTs, STs and supervisors.  Sometime next week the rehab unit is supposed to do something similar.  I'll be surprised if that happens because no one seems to want to take on the responsibility of making ...

Last weekend I finally got around to completing the annual questionnaire sent out to members by the APTA.  It's probably about 50 questions, excluding demographics, about the practice of physical therapy.  There were the expected ''how would you rate the following'' questions about the APTA, the APTA website and the like. Another section ...

It was not an easy choice to pick up and move to another country at my current age (let's just call me a ''geezer'' and leave it at that) nor when I'm in a position that I particularly like in a company that I really believe in. I first had to find out if I could practice in England. Being a geezer, I'm educated at a BS level and have made an ...

This past Sunday, teams of professional cyclists pedaled their way through the last stage of the 2009 Tour de France and Alberto Contador was declared the winner. The race--approximately 3,500 kilometers over 23 days--attracted record-breaking crowds and inspired many to take a spin on their own bikes. Some of these same people likely ...

At the recent APTA annual conference in Baltimore, the APTA's Board of Delegates met to select the organization's officers for the coming term. R. Scott Ward, PT, PhD, was re-elected to a second term as the organization's president. Joining him as vice-president will be newly elected Paul A. Rockar, Jr., PT, DPT, MS. Aimee B. Klein, PT, DPT, ...

I'm a continuing education junkie.  I love going to courses.  Home study courses aren't bad either.  I've had to cut down and limit myself lately because things have gotten so expensive.  I will no longer travel for a course, unless it's NDT next year.  I've restricted myself to either neuro or geriatric topics in ...

BALTIMORE--On Friday, June 12, Helene M. Fearon, PT, was honored with the 14th annual Maley Lecture. Since 1996, this lecture has been an integral part of APTA's annual conference. Fearon, a graduate of Marquette University's physical therapy program and co-owner of Fearon Physical Therapy, has experience in reimbursement, fiscal management and ...

BALTIMORE--Do we really need all of the regulations Medicare and the physician fee schedule places on the PT profession-or do the regulations just make practicing PT more cumbersome and confusing? Likely a little bit of both, according to the panelists at the 2009 Rothstein Debate, ''When Does Regulation Become Over-Regulation, and When Does ...

I learned something interesting today. Only APTA members are bound by its Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics. No disciplinary action can be taken against a non-member for violation of either code. That made me sit back and think. Just about every conversation I've had on those topics centers on what the APTA has determined as ...