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Vol. 79, No. 3, March 1999, pp. 246-247
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The Sensitive Practitioner

Jules M Rothstein, PhD, PT, FAPTA, Editor


Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the full text and any section headings.

Many health care practitioners view practice guidelines as threats to individual initiative, whereas others, including this Editor, view appropriately drawn guidelines as paths to better practice—more scientific and effective practice. But guidelines are credible when they are based on data, not when they are based only on the power of those who invoke them. Guidelines can be (but are not always) a guarantee that patients will receive the best possible care with due regard to available resources. On occasion, even some of the most passionate opponents of guidelines might admit that they yearn for a more detailed "road map" to guide their behaviors.

When treated as though it could belong to any patient, a disassociated frozen shoulder is a minimal challenge compared with the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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