The terrible adventure of rehabilitation.
Friendship with patients, caregivers are taught during their professional training, is to be avoided. Yet the capacity for friendship--to be "a person who emerges in her personhood and not simply as a professional"--may be crucial to effective therapy.
Mattingly
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Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago.
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