After clicking through a friend’s Facebook pictures from a trip to Spain, I’ve began thinking again about doing one of my clinical internships in the country. I know Columbia has a Medical Spanish elective, so hopefully that will be a big help for me. In high school, I excelled in five years of Spanish classes […]
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I’ve previously written about celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brad Pitt and Halle Berry injuring themselves and needing PT, and today E! News has a video about another crop of celeb injuries. Brooke Shields brought a cane (and comfy flip flops!) with her to the fancy Met Ball due to a torn meniscus, “The Big Bang
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List25.com ranks Physical Therapy as the 13th best job for 2012. Another Jobs Ranking
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CareerCast named Physical Therapy the 13th best job for 2012 based on the following criteria: “Physical Demands, Work Environment, Income, Stress and Hiring Outlook.” In particular, they seem to site PT for having a great outlook and a low stress environment. (My former career path made the Worst Jobs list!) PT Makes Another Best Jobs
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There’s a great column in The New York Times where they describe a patient with mysterious symptoms in a blog post, and then reveal what the diagnosis is a few days later. The most recent one involves a patient with physical symptoms that could have initially sent her to a Physical Therapist. Here’s the description
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We all know we’re not supposed to care about program rankings. We’re supposed to find a program that fits us, that is geographically desirable, that has great facilities, etc. But nevertheless, rankings systems exists. The latest updated rankings from US News was released last night and I’m curious what people think about them. I think
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That’s great – thanks for the support and good luck with your studies!
I was searching under physical therapy tags here and found your blog. good stuff! Read More »
A few weeks ago, Brad Pitt showed up at a red carpet even walking with a cane after injuring his ACL while carrying his daughter. And today, Halle Berry will miss the Oscars after sustaining an injury while chasing after her own daughter. She broke her foot in September so it seems like a long
In college, even though I took a lot of electives and took classes in any order I wanted, I was constantly drawing connections between theories I was learning in Communication, Psychology and other classes. As a post-bacc student studying basic Anatomy, Chemistry and Physics, the classes I’m taking often seem too divergent. Until today. I
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