OT opinions

[Neil & Betsy]

To all:   It seems that everyone has a strong opinion about what is wrong with the OT and each of us has our own definition of the profession.  All I have heard about for the last two weeks is everyone's opinion of Ron, so what?  We all are entitled to our opinions! My complaint is, how many of us can actually do something about it? Or help the community better understand our profession?  You can complain all day but unless you do something about it you are just putting the blame onto someone else.  Even if it just writing a letter to a congressman or participating in your community. In OT school my professors challenged all of us to come up with our own definition of OT, the key was we could not include anything about PT or SLP.  I realized I always explained OT by starting out saying "It is like PT, but...".  (Just something to think about)   Betsy