Dear Dr. Siff:
Please identify your planet and solar system. I thought you lived on
another continent, not on another planet. We on earth don't do things
because they make sense (how "unearthlike"), we do them for selfish,
politically and economically motivated reasons. I for one (often having
been accused of being from another planet) would love to participate in
this new(Scientific Therapy) profession. More simply, I would like to work
in an environment where people practiced in the area in which they were
trained--as such, there is much overlap between PT, ATC and DC. Well, just
dream on buddy.
One more thought. If it was truly scientific therapy, does that mean we
would have to quit doing things that were not scientific, and did not make
any sense?
Herb Silver, PT
Atlanta, GA, USA, Earth
At 05:27 PM 9/21/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Let us see if we can envisage this endless debate between physical
therapists
>and chiropractors being finally resolved at some distant time. A fairly
>objective scientist or medic comes along and proposes that an entirely new,
>but integrated profession be set up, called, for argument's sake, Scientific
>Therapy (ST).
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>He assembles a group of interested PTs, chiros, osteopaths and Athletic
>Trainers and decides to draw up a full motivation which eventually succeeds
>in meeting all national educational and legislative requirements. A unique
>ST college is set up and it attracts more and more students, because it
>offers the best of PT, chiro, osteopathy, AT, etc, plus even a broader
>components drawn from alternative and medical fields.
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>Eventually the numbers of students entering PT, chiros, ATs etc dwindle
and a
>single, unified profession, like Medicine, emerges (with various sub
>specialisations to cater for the full spectrum of physical disorders). The
>medical profession and insurance companies prefer dealing with this one more
>uniform profession.
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>End result - few PTs, chiros, osteos, ATs etc - just one far more harmonious
>overall profession.
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>Yes, I know that sounds like dreamland and that many vested interests exist,
>but it would make some very good medical and commercial sense to have
someone
>start such a profession. Has this ever been tried with any really sustained
>determination?
>
>Dr Mel C Siff
>Denver, USA
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