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Vol. 76, No. 6, June 1996, pp. 664-666
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Be Not Content to "Sleep and Feed"

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

To the Editor:

You have missed the point. As an editor who appears to be conversant in the liberal arts, you will appreciate the analogy in Hamlet's final soliloquy to the battle in which manual therapists and the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) are embroiled:

...What is a man

If his chief good and market of his time

Be but to sleep and feed?

A beast, no more.

Looking before and after, gave us not

That capability and godlike reason

To fust in us unused...

I applaud your advocacy of enhancing specialty training through an achievement of higher levels of skill based on "credible science, not on cults and fads" (Editor's Note, November 1995). The movement away from specialization within the medical arena in today's managed care environment is all too painfully clear....


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