For once?
After attending a few AOTA conferences (actually post conference
entertainment), I can safely say that there are a fair number of OTs who
have fun for all of us. It's interesting to see some well known OTs
plastered.
>From: "Dale and Lisa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Are OTs Survivors?
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:49:36 -0400
>
>But wasn't it just plain fun for once? I hope not everyone is this serious
>all of the time. Life is too short!
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dana Levinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 7:41 PM
>Subject: Re: Are OTs Survivors?
>
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > You pretty much hit the nail on the head. We need to be careful with
>simply
> > accepting things without real scrutiny...especially in clinical
> > documentation and published works (including frames of references).
> >
> > I've read several OT research and sometimes feel ashamed that my
>profession
> > could possibly publish such poor research. Over the past 15 years, I've
>read
> > a good share of OT research and can't even begin to express my
> > disappointment in the quality of research (of course, I do not mean all
>OT
> > research). I've run across too many published studies (one being too
>many)
> > that used incorrect statistical models, reported inconsistent data, and
> > generally used poor research methodology. To make it worse, newer
>research
> > base their reasoning on prior junk studies.
> >
> > How many of us have read OT research and accepted the conclusions by the
> > authors but really didn't understand the Results section? Just curious.
>A
> > raise of hands will suffice.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong. I love the profession. Unfortunately, I see too many
>of
> > my peers blindly accepting deeds to bridges without reading the fine
>print.
> > Let me point out that I'm guilty of not contributing to OT research
>myself
> > as my doctorate is in public health and have been spending more of my
>time
> > in that field lately.
> >
> > Dana
> >
> >
> > >From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: Re: Are OTs Survivors?
> > >Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 00:14:07 +0100
> > >
> > >Well, it's certainly not impressive, is it? Are we the weakest link? I
>hope
> > >we're all a lot more careful
> > >when it comes to reading clinical documentation and research!
> > >
> > >As for Paul Scarpati's message -- I learnt not to open unexplained
> > >attachments from listservs by painful
> > >experience. Won't be doing it again.
> > >
> > >Dana Levinson wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have received the spam email about Karen and the Survivor show
>from
>4
> > > > differents sources. This leads me to believe that the majority of
>votes
> > > > Karen received were from OTs who got the email.
> > > >
> > > > None of the sources I received the email from cared to even read
>through
> > >the
> > > > site to validate its purpose.
> > > >
> > > > Is our profession really this careless?
> > > >
> > > > Dana
> > > >
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