Difficult Patients, Practitioners, and Encounters
A recent encounter with a patient began with a hushed warning from the administrative staff that this patient was difficult....
Of Pandas and the Imposter Phenomenon in Healthcare
Axel Bueckert/stock.adobe.com The 2008 movie Kung Fu Panda tells the story of a young panda named Po who is obsessed...
How Disruptive Behavior Impacts Patient Care
The details of my first experience independently providing orthotic services in an operating room are etched indelibly in my memory....
Black and Blue: Dark Humor in Clinical Practice
The term frequent flyer is used to describe individuals who travel regularly by air. In this context it is not...
Stigma and Hiding Disability
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wheelchair When the memorial to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) in Washington was completed in 1997,...
Hygiene and Its Implications in O&P Practice
Prior to beginning a career in O&P, I had minimal interaction with individuals with poor hygiene and assumed that cleanliness...
Ways of Understanding Disability
Modern medicine has existed for a relatively short period of human history. Before the biological basis of illness and disease...
Footwear Preferences and Priorities
The O&P company I worked for when I began my orthotic residency stocked only three styles of orthopedic shoes: a...
Gait Symmetry and Lower-limb Dominance
Upper-limb asymmetry and limb dominance (handedness) are recognized as normal and taken into consideration when making O&P clinical recommendations. A...
Promoting Resilience in Pediatric Patients
Ten years ago, “Jackson Stone’s Brave Decision to Amputate His Foot” was uploaded to YouTube.1 The video includes interviews with...
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