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Understanding the influence of placebo and nocebo in clinical practice   Ok, so this one is a little longer than previous posts. If you need a minute to freshen your coffee or grab a snack, I completely understand. This topic...

Patient expectations change and clinicians need to keep up “Taking uncertainty into account can enhance a physicians therapeutic effectiveness because it demonstrates his honesty, his willingness to be more engaged with his patients, his commitment to the reality of th...

   9 minute read   “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” – Henry David Thoreau   Have you ever changed...

   8 minute read   “I know I am ready to give feedback when I’m ready to listen, ask questions, and accept that I may not fully understand the issue” – Brené Brown   You will be hard pressed to...

12 minute read   “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” – Richard Feynman   If we are to progress as a profession, we must hold each other accountable. If we are to provide our patients the best...

Read Time: 8 minutes “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” -Will Durant   Think back to the material you covered in PT School. Let’s go specifically to a class we all...

Read Time: 10-12 min Believe whatever you believe by day, but at night, argue against the propositions you hold most dear” – How not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg   Last week we covered...

Read Time: 9-11 minutes “The test of first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald   I know what you...

    “To believe something is to believe that it is true; therefore a reasonable person believes each of his beliefs to be true; yet experience has taught him to expect that some of this beliefs, he knows not which,...