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Tipping the Scales of Time

JK Richardson, PT, PhD, OCS, is Chairman, Department of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy, Duke University Health System, and Professor and Chair, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, School of Medicine, Duke University, Box 3965, Durham, NC 27710 (USA) (richa052@mc.duke.edu)

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	Introduction

 
I truly am pleased to see so many of you here today and want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this special day with me ... being that this is the last Presidential Address of my term as President. However, to see so many people in the audience reminds me of a comment that was once made by Sir Winston Churchill when he was congratulated on the size of the audience that had come to hear him speak. It was no great achievement to draw such a crowd, Churchill said, "Twice as many would have turned out for a public hanging."

While I know that this is not a public hanging, I would like to avail myself of the condemned man's right to say a few last words ... in this case, my thoughts on where the profession of physical therapy must go in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

	The Past Century

 

	The New Millennium

 

	Future Strategies

 

	Tipping the Scales

 

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