Chris: A moratorium on Part B caps is expected hopefully before Jan 1.
This is what was posted on the AOTA website today: Cap Moratorium in Jeopardy; Action Needed Now Congress may not pass a bill on Medicare by January 1, so grassroots action is needed NOW to pressure members to address the cap in December. Joe Wells, OT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <OTlist@OTnow.com> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [OTlist] my own long winded non sensical rant > Well it's really easy to tell someone to snap out of it. Sounds like > common OT depression to me and you are far from alone. I have beeen in the > profession for 8 years--five in school based. I left because I couldn't > please the teachers who wanted one thing and I couldn't please the > parents. They were either in denial (the lower incomes ones) since I was > working with preschoolers and I was the first one to tell them their kids > weren't perfect. The middle class parents always wanted endless therapy > and nothing satisfied them. I had a great time with the kids who always > enjoyedworking with me. Now I have been in long term care at a number of > facilites and done a great deal of PRN as well and once again I found > myself discouraged. I too have seen 99% exercise based therapy. I have > done some activities when I was in a small facility and the only OT. But > when I work with other OTs they don't want to do anything but exercise and > minimum adls. I want to go to a facility that uses > occupation to see what they do, I am sick and tired of AOTA people and > educators saying basically just do occupation without telling us what to > do specifically. I just started doing homehealth and find once again. > Everyone wants a HH aide to bath them or they are very happy with sponge > bathing. Most are elderly and unmotivated. Most days I wish I had the > money to go back to school to become a PT. OT looks great on paper just > like you said. Funny I just came to the same realization a few weeks ago > and was talking about the same thing to a friend who works at a SNF with > lots of modalities. She said if it wasn;tfor using all these treatments > she would feel like a fraud, too.Gee, I guess I didn't provide much > encouragement either. I think therapists need to get together and brain > storm. What's going on with the part B caps?Chris OTR/'L > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! > -- > Unsubscribe? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Change options? > www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com > > Archive? > www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com > > Help? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Unsubscribe? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com Help? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
