Hi, again!  I'm afraid you caught me in another ''I wonder how people can BE that way'' mood!  I'll try to keep the frustration from weasling its way into my ''voice'' today; but it will be difficult.  So, let me tell you my story and get it over with. As an occupational therapist, I have had the distinct pleasure of ...

  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 ...

  Happy Fall, fellow bloggers!  Brrrr...I have finally switched the summer clothes (oh, how I love them!) for the warm, cozy fall and winter ones (oh, how I NEED them!).  Actually, to be more accurate, my husband did the switching since our clothes are stored in the attic.  There was a time when I could have done this myself; ...

Arguably, the best changes are ones that are subtle but make a big impact. To that end I would like to welcome our readers to ADVANCE for Physical Therapy and Rehab Medicine, a new and improved version of the national physical therapy newsmagazine that serves your profession. We're expanding our focus in ADVANCE to include more coverage of ...

  Good day, everyone!  I hope you are all keeping warm (no comment from you all in the perpetually warm climates!).  Keeping warm...now there's a challenge!  I have lived in cold climates for the majority of my life, which began in Rome, New York.  I remember the snow blizzard of '62 (that's 1962 for all of you born ...

My third externship is now only 4 months away, so time is really starting to wind down. As of yet, I still have absolutely no idea where I'm going to end up. I've discovered in recent years, that I am quite the ''Type A'' personality. And other than our itemized, alphabetical, typed, to-do list, we ''A'' personalities also MUST have a solid plan ...

Although the country is still in the midst of a major economic crunch, it's important not to overlook/undervalue the importance of quality office help. Yes, having that extra employee can be a financial strain on an audiology practice's bottom line, but I thought I'd share two articles from our recently released November/December 2009 issue of ...

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 ...

''What strategies are occupational therapists interested in mental health going to develop to both assert the field as an effective treatment and practice it as such?'' This question was posed by an OT student in her comments on my assertion that advocacy groups such as the Icarus Project can provide new ideas - and ''re-emergent'' practice ...