Hi All Back to this thread. Ron wrote > >From my experience and in my opinion, the person most 'right' for OT is the person whose focus is not on their impairment, but on their > disability or handicap. Occasionally, I run across patients like this > and they are a true occupational joy to work with. I think he is absolutely right. Who are these people? I'm remembering a lecture from OT school when we were told that most of the people we would see would be those who had more than one problem and whose medical condition would lead to a permanent or protracted change in physical and/or mental abilities. Others would be those disabled from birth. An observation that I have made re OT/PT is that most able, generally healthy people have had some contact themselves or through people close to them with a PT re temporary impairments especially athletic injuries. They are usually productive, tax paying citizens or their children. ie the valued powerful members of our society. We are more likely to see people who are disadvantaged for a whole host of reasons. Is this a reason for our lower visibility? Joan
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Ron Carson > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 6:02 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OTlist] Characteristics of the "right" person for OT > > Hello Eveyone: > > Recently Joan mentioned that we might want to discuss the > characteristics of patients who right for OT. I think this is an > interesting topic and may be worthy of discussion, so I'll try and start > it off. > > >From my experience and in my opinion, the person most 'right' for OT is > the person whose focus is not on their impairment, but on their > disability or handicap. Occasionally, I run across patients like this > and they are a true occupational joy to work with. > > But, these types of patients/referrals are few and far between. I think > that if there existed in this country a network of healthcare providers > whose primary focus was improving patients occupation, then OT would > have a great role. But for now, most of us don't work in such a model > but there are exceptions, I'm sure. > > Ron > > > -- > Unsubscribe? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Change options? > www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com > > Archive? > www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Help? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.3/331 - Release Date: 5/3/2006 > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/334 - Release Date: 5/8/2006
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