LATE Friday funny
Here ’tis – courtesy of Blair, a colleague of mine! Have a good one!
‘pologies
Sorry there is no Friday Funny – my own laptop is in the laptop hospital getting a RAM implant and a harddrive transplant. Apparently I had waaaay too much information on the poor thing, and when they mirrored the harddrive before putting the new one it, it took far longer than anyone expected – so … Read more
‘Payment by outcome’ in pain management
Today I was informed that a major purchaser of pain management services was preparing to ‘move to payment by outcome’. What does that mean? Well, over the past few weeks and months I’ve been thinking about what the major influences are on health care practice. Is it ‘the evidence’? Is it patient need? Is it … Read more
Pain-blog carnival time!
Head over to How to cope with pain blog for a round-up of quality posts on living with pain. Thanks to How to cope with pain for hosting this monthly event!
An illustration of therapist drift
To recap, over the past couple of days I’ve written about how therapists can contribute to ineffective treatment. These factors include our bias toward thinking that our therapy is working and we’re doing it well, while attributing failure to patient motivation or recognising small changes as much more important than they are. In addition, we … Read more
Drifting… from the plan: evidence-based treatment and therapist drift
Yesterday I looked at some of the points made by Waller in his paper on Evidence-based treatment and therapist drift (2009) when I discussed times when therapists contribute to poor outcomes from treatment. I started looking at this when I was thinking about the distinction between ‘teaching’, ‘education’ or ‘information’ and helping someone reconceptualise their … Read more
Drifting… from the plan: evidence-based treatment and therapist drift
It’s not something we like to talk about. In fact, it’s something I think many of us don’t really even know about. What I’m talking of is how therapists drift, stray, or deviate from what is evidence-based treatment into what is not. Strangely enough, I’ve been thinking of this in relation to my post yesterday … Read more
Education, information and a cognitive behavioural approach to pain management
For over 10 years now, I’ve winced every time someone has suggested that I’m ‘teaching’ when I facilitate pain management groups. Something about the word ‘teach’ gives me the heebie-jeebies – and I have nothing against teachers! I think it’s the flavour of me being some sort of ‘expert’ giving information or education to others. … Read more
Spot the grammatical mistakes
1. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent. 2. Just between you and I, case is important. 3. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. 4. Watch out for irregular verbs which have crope into our language. 5. Don’t use no double negatives. 6. A writer mustn’t shift your point of view. 7. When dangling, don’t … Read more
Images for the weekend…
Go here for some fabulous New Zealand poems – and have a wonderful weekend!
