Diane
29-05-2006, 07:35 PM
In the true spirit of "The Rubbish Cube: The best place to criticize what is going wrong in health systems and other subjects", I am opening a thread that has to do with the battle for direct access for PTs going on in the US right now. This is from the blogsite, Evidence in Motion (http://blog.evidenceinmotion.com/evidence/2006/05/new_york_state_.html#comments) (aka EIM, also known jokingly as "EverythingIsMesoderm";) ).
The topic has to do with physicians, specifically orthopods, who "keep" PTs as their little money-making slaves/herds of domesticated profit producers. Read the "ad" (attached below) that the orthopods put out as a direct unbridled effort to scare the public into thinking that PTs are unsafe if allowed to operate outside a referral system. What transparent and idiotic chest thumping. Meanwhile, all sorts of other practitioners, such as athletic trainers, fitness trainers, massage therapists, chiropractors, have no such chains around their ability to make a living as primary care direct access practitioners. All of these "free" practitioners also touch people for a living, yet PTs are kept away from such privilege i.e., being freely accessible to whoever would like their services (in the so-called land of the free and the home of the brave, no less!.. :rolleyes:).
To add further insult to injury, there is even a counterforce (http://www.ethicalpt.org/) within PT itself of PTs who want to maintain the staus quo of PT slavery, and who furthermore have the nerve to call this interial damper effect "ETHICAL"(!) Ethical.. when it goes against the direction, aims, goals and leadership of their own national association, and against the evolution of their own profession. They should be ashamed.
My hat is tipped to the US PTs, whether mesodermists or not, who continue to work toward dropping those balls and chains and shackles that limit true professionalization of manual therapy (soft or hard) in the US.
None of us are free until all of us are free.
The topic has to do with physicians, specifically orthopods, who "keep" PTs as their little money-making slaves/herds of domesticated profit producers. Read the "ad" (attached below) that the orthopods put out as a direct unbridled effort to scare the public into thinking that PTs are unsafe if allowed to operate outside a referral system. What transparent and idiotic chest thumping. Meanwhile, all sorts of other practitioners, such as athletic trainers, fitness trainers, massage therapists, chiropractors, have no such chains around their ability to make a living as primary care direct access practitioners. All of these "free" practitioners also touch people for a living, yet PTs are kept away from such privilege i.e., being freely accessible to whoever would like their services (in the so-called land of the free and the home of the brave, no less!.. :rolleyes:).
To add further insult to injury, there is even a counterforce (http://www.ethicalpt.org/) within PT itself of PTs who want to maintain the staus quo of PT slavery, and who furthermore have the nerve to call this interial damper effect "ETHICAL"(!) Ethical.. when it goes against the direction, aims, goals and leadership of their own national association, and against the evolution of their own profession. They should be ashamed.
My hat is tipped to the US PTs, whether mesodermists or not, who continue to work toward dropping those balls and chains and shackles that limit true professionalization of manual therapy (soft or hard) in the US.
None of us are free until all of us are free.