The devil's in the details.  Not always.  Sometimes the devil is in your attitude.  If you find yourself saddled with a negative outlook, there's no better time for an attitude adjustment than Thanksgiving. Below are some opposing viewpoints to common circumstances at work and at home.  Which end of the spectrum do you find ...

Be careful what you wish for.  It is so easy to see greener grass on the other side.  Often we don't take time to think through the ramifications of our decisions. My seven-year old, Abigail, announced, ''I wish our family only had five people.''  We currently have six, so I was curious who had offended her most grievously.  ...

  Are you trying to perform tasks but find you consistently come up short? Maybe you are working outside of your skill set.  As I watch a squirrel, his tiny cheeks chock full of nuts, I marvel at how easily he can crack open the shells.  This feat is made all the more impressive because of his diminutive size. My ...

The London Times published an article today about the hopeful next Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his plan to overhaul the National Health Service. There has been outcry at mismanagement in the system and frustration by the public at the apparent lack of attention to timely and quality care. As I mentioned in a previous post, the NHS is the ...

We lived in West Palm Beach, Florida. You'd think we would have been in heaven.  The sun, the sand, the glitz. But our experience was far from heavenly.  While I finished out the remaining six weeks of a contract assignment, my husband moved down to get us settled. He says if he'd have known then what he knows now, he would ...

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 ...

Yesterday was a bad day.  That's how I went to bed remembering it, anyway.  Mulling over its badness, I realized yesterday was really only bad in spots. Because those ''spots'' had come toward the end of the day, they eclipsed all the good that came before them.  My next thought surprised and challenged me.  I was only ...

Watching the movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, I couldn't help but feel sorry for Mutant.  He enters an environment where he is the outcast.  In a world of imagination and creativity, he speaks a language of rules and regulations.  When difficult times come, he tries to help, but his love of paperwork gets in the way.  ...

This week I was discussing the roles between PT's, PT students, and PTA's with my professor. I mentioned that, though I have had interactions with PTA's during my last two clinicals, it has been relatively limited in me directly supervising them. While talking to her I expressed my concern with supervising a PTA who has been practicing for an ...

  ADVANCE is already receiving some nice feedback about our Aug. 10, 2009, cover story on therapists who entered the profession later in life, many after following established careers in other fields for years. The story, ''Late Bloomers,'' tracked several therapists into their moves into the profession. The subjects found by freelance ...