June 2008

Features

• Critical Times: The Patient as Health Care Consumer

  As health care consumers,  patients and clients have a growing number of choices. PTs are positioning their practices accordingly.

• Peering Into the Future

  Student-to-students mentoring programs are helping prepare the PTs and PTAs of tomorrow for the challenges ahead.

• Tighten Your Seat Belts: More Advice on Preparing for the Economy Ahead

  In April's PT Magazine, PTs offered their advice on how to thrive in the uncertain months and years ahead. Here's more advice from another group of PTs.

Columns and Departments

• Ethics in Action: Ethical Issues and Students: Analysis

  An examination of ethical scenarios presented in recent columns.

• Government Affairs: Investing in Incentives

  The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's latest report emphasizes quality and efficiency.

• Inside PT: Consumerism and the Economy

  Our cover story examines a trend affecting all of health care and, even more broadly, virtually all segments of the economy: the patient/client (or customer) as a consumer. The physical therapists (PTs) profiled in the article discuss what this development means to both individual physical therapy practices and the profession generally.

• PTA Viewpoint: We've Got Your Back

  Placing a premium on workplace safety.

• This Is Why: Shot of Recognition

  A niche confirmed in service to an injured officer.

• APTA Resources

  - Four PT Practices Win 100% Credentialed Clinical Instructor Competition
  - Work on Strategic Plan Now Complete

• Foundation Update

  - Center for the Intrepid Colonel To Speak at Dinner Dance
  - Foundation Scholarship, Research Grant Applications Due in August

• Letters to the Editor

  - Home Health
  - The Military Responds
  - "Mild" TBI and the "Walking Wounded"

• News

  - Legislation and Regulation
  - Health Care Headlines
  - Association Update
  - Members on the Move
  - Industry News