As a current student who is not a "great scientist", I really like your
"grandmother" rule. I believe that I will be able to look up the science
when I can't recall the specifics, but the caring touch is difficult to
find in a book. Your rule gave me a smile. Thanks
Gigi
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Ed Greene wrote:
> I have endless (delightful) discussions with my PT students over the
> science side of PT vs the affective domain (behavioral/emontional
> component) side. No matter how much I talk about the need for
> "caring/behavioral considerations" they think that if they know the mobs
> then they will be good PTs. A recent program from Public Broadcasting
> put forth that 50% of a Family Practitioner's (physician) delivery of
> medicine was science but importantly ---also 50% of their delivery of
> health care was good human caring---or caring for the patients life
> beyond medical techniques.
>
> How do you measure this in PT students and in PTs? I have come to the
> conclusion that if I trusted someone to take care of my grandmother then
> I would count them as a good PT. How's that for a scientific researched
> determinant. If a PT was good enough to treat my grandmother than I
> would trust in his/her scientific basis, but would also value highly the
> human side of the therapist.
>
> The issues created by this discussion shows up in research vs. the
> clinic, science vs. human concern, what you know vs. how you touch,
> etc. In our program a few years back, we had a student who struggled
> the entire 3 years. But through extraordinary diligence, thousands of
> hours gifted to this student by his class mates--he made in through the
> educational part of this PT program. What marked this student above all
> others who struggled was his exceptional caring, concern, and love for
> others. He may not have been the best scientist is his class but he
> was an A+ as determined by the grandmother rule.
>
> Assess the PTs around you, the PT students you teach---what is your
> grandmother rating? What do you think of my scale? Is it valid and
> reliable? Do you therapist who are in other countries use or can use
> this determination? How do you assess the science vs. human argument,
> the research vs. the clinic aligning of interpretation? What does your
> grandmother say?
>
> --
> "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds.
> The latter
> cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
> hereditary
> prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
> Albert Einstein
>
>
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