I’m back after a self-imposed blogging vacation for the last several weeks.  Under the famous banter of “the more things change, the more they stay the same” are a few things observed: 1.  Although they credit the “grass roots” effort, it appears to me that our national organization single handedly took the credit for getting the 10% cut in medicare repealed and for overriding the veto-they might have set the bar a little high.  Note to file: anytime the AMA fights something big with huge national campaigns and dollars, stay in the sidelines, save the time and expense and use the money saved to fight CMS’s attempt to over regulate us out of existence. 2. PT hospital administrators are the most sensitive in our profession.  I made a simple comment on a listserve frequented by them that many PT’s work in hospitals in part because they don’t want to “mess with financials”.  You would have thought that I spread the west nile virus.  A VA PT made the comment to the effect that there are times when the distinction between PT and OT are blurred.  You would have thought he suggested eliminating diversity articles from the PT magazine. 3. Our PR efforts nationally have now gone from Blackberry thumb to Tummy Time.  Great progress on that front-we’re on pace for  “slimming” hip huggers in about 6 months. 4.  At least 2 commenters on this blog are being sued for 1 Million Dollars for comments they made about John Barnes.  Isn’t that ironic on a blog whose focus is about evidence based practice?  Does that give this blog more or less credibility?  Poor Barry Dorko got blasted by the attorney in the comments.  Perhaps he should change his name to Barrack? 5. According to my filtering sources, physical therapy is mentioned an average of 56 times per day in web articles and blogs and shows up in Twitter via my Tweetscan about 14 times per day and growing.  Another words, we get about 1% of the hits that a personal trainer or a massage therapist get.  Perhaps personal trainers should start promoting Tummy Time? Thoughts? larry@physicaltherapist.com (Source: MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com)
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