Health Care Reform...

Based on depressing accounts like this of yet another drug scandal, I am not counting on the pharmaceutical industry to provide much assistance in reforming health care. Remember, when it comes to managing musculoskeletal conditions, you can have drugs, you can have surgery, or you can have us. Never apologize for being a physical therapist. Our potential to be positive agents of change in health care reform is immeasurable. The perfect storm supporting the value of PT is brewing...evidence (it's on our side), aging (anyone notice we're growing older as a population?), and the current crippling of our health care system (musculoskeletal = #1 cost). We too frequently get wrapped up in all the negativity around the barriers, yet whether we realize our potential is completely in our control. The opportunities are staring us in the face, and our best days remain ahead so long as we don't get in our way.

John