Listening carefully.
The inept physical therapist is unable to be with her patient, unable to "move on from the 'I' to a 'we.'" The effective therapist helps the patient make friends with his body and with the cosmos and leaves room for the patient's struggle with the questions of life's meaning brought to the fore by serious illness.
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Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
D003142:Communication; D004645:Empathy; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce