One of the most interesting things to me is that hospitals have been so slow to adopt protocols. Respiratory protocols not only allow therapists to use their expertise, but have also been shown to decrease a patient's length of stay and reduce readmission rates. Many hospitals have protocols for some things we do: pulse oximetry as a response to ...

We have all worked for them: Bad bosses who couldn't lead a pack of flies through a sweat farm. You've worked for them; so have I. It is rare, especially these days, to find a boss who actually ''gets it'' when it comes to his or her employees. We want to give our bosses the respect they have earned, but maybe they have forgotten respect is a ...

Consider this: In 1929, U.S. health care costs were about $4 billion. By 2007, those costs were more than $2 trillion. Increased technologies, procedures, and specialized medicine led health care costs to skyrocket to the anticipated 20 percent of our GDP by 2015, compared to 5 percent earlier in the century. People pay to stay healthy. It's basic ...

With the new year in its infancy, it's time to think about what we do and how we do it. We have all worked for the supervisor content to sit in an office and watch everyone else work. I'm fortunate. I don't have one of those. My supervisor is out there on the floors with us, doing his share and sometimes more. We've also all worked with the ...