Brent, are you suggesting that ALL your interventions are based on evidence?
I also want to add that medicine deals with diseases affecting people. OT deals with people affected by diseases. Researching what affects a disease process is vastly different than what affects a person with a disease. Plus, I wonder what the occupational science people are doing? Ron -- Ron Carson MHS, OT ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Cheyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 To: otlist@otnow.com <otlist@otnow.com> Subj: [OTlist] expertise BC> Ron and all, BC> While I love OT as a profession, I remain open-minded to doing BC> what is proven to work, If Occupation is all that we believe it to BC> be, it will become evident when studied...a good idea it won't BC> die. We owe it to our clients to confirm objectively what gets BC> results and meet their goals and discard what doesn't. BC> Food for thought BC> "Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only BC> ill prepared for making discoveries: they also make very poor BC> observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, BC> and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its BC> results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort BC> observation and often neglect very impotant facts because they do not further BC> their aim. But it happens further quite naturally that men who believe BC> too firmly in their theories, do not believe BC> enough in the theories of others. BC> So the dominant idea of these despisers of their fellows is to find BC> others' theories faulty and try to contradict them. The difficulty BC> for science is still the same." BC> Claude Bernard, "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine,1865 BC> BC> Sincerely Brent Cheyne OTR/L BC> -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com
