Today, I went to lunch with the owner and marketers from a large DME
company. The owner's parents are having health issues and his mom was
just discharged from a SNF.
When the owner learned that I was an OT he explained that he had just
"discovered" the difference between OT and PT. He continued by saying
that he *thought* OT worked on daily living things but had learned that
{drum roll, please}, OT is above the waist and PT is below the waist! He
asked the group if that was correct and when I started to explain
things, one of the marketing people said that he was basically correct.
Now get this... The marketing person's daughter is... you guessed it, an
OT!!!
Is it any wonder that our profession has an identity crisis? Our
professional literature doesn't say we work above the waist, yet many
OT's are trained that way. We advertise ourselves as "skills for the job
of living", yet many OT's practice as UE therapists. What a mess!!
Ron
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