Another month goes by (wasn’t it National Physical Therapy Month?), more things to file.

#pet peeve #3  My Pet Peeve series will continue-getting lots of others to crowd source theirs as well.  My #3 is to long to tweet, too short to write an entire post but is perturbing.  Pet Peeve #3 is “Physical Therapy Diagnoses”.  I expressed in previous post about my disdain for the overused “physical therapy”.  It gets even worse when you put “diagnoses” after it as though patients have diagnoses that are based on provider instead of what they have.  While there have been attempts, most notably through Guide to Physical Therapy to classify patients into certain diagnostic groups, it has largely been a failure in terms of adoption.  This is largely because payors are locked into ICD 9 or its newer vintage ICD 10 which will likely only confuse the matter.  The bottom line for all of those in our profession who are scared to admit or have some type of inferiority complex is that physical therapists do in fact diagnose!

#Takes one to know one.  Calif Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi who is chiefly supported by the Calif Medical Association and who is largely responsible for the Calif Physical Therapy State Board’s inability to act upon regulations which prohibit a PT from working in a physician’s office, has been arrested for shoplifting.  Ironically, she chairs the Assembly Committee on Business, Professions, and Consumer Protections!  I am sure this will not matter to Neiman Marcus who have caught her on tape lifting approx $2500 in goods (including leather pants and a black skirt-Halloween?).

#meaningful impact.   As has been sadly reported, Dr. Jayne Snyder passed away in October.  Her impact and exemplary leadership in the physical therapist profession will be felt for years.  I am very thankful that I had the benefit and privilege of working with her on committees and projects and her combination of intelligence, pragmatism, wit, and professionalism will be sorely missed but will not be forgotten.  The world of private practice would not be in the great state that it is right now without Jayne’s work.  She also demonstrated that PT’s can make excellent political leaders as she served on City Council of Lincoln. Her work and support of the Foundation for Physical Therapy is legendary and a fund, entitled the Jayne L. Snyder, PT, DPT, MA, FAPTA Endowment Fund will provide a source of funding to support the efficacy of physical therapist practice through scientific methods of clinical research.   It is only fitting that she passed on the same day as Steve Jobs.  I couldn’t help see shades of Jayne in the eulogy that Steve Jobs sister wrote that appeared in today’s NYT.

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