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brooke213 -> Re: I need help with SCPNT (September 26, 2002 2:26:00 PM)
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Dr. Andrew Ball,
I would like to express my sincere apologies to you. My disrespectful comments and unprofessional behavior were unnecessary and unacceptable. My first post to the forum was evidently misunderstood and should have been clearer. I should not have assumed that the readers knew where I was in my search. I believe that I have learned an important life lesson from this situation. Due to the faculty of the institution at which I attend becoming aware of the situation, I have realized how many people this can and does affect. I hope that you will accept this apology and understand that I have learned from this.
Sincerely,
Brooke
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Andrew M. Ball MS MBA PT:
Brooke,
Traveling from city to city every few weekends leaves me plenty of time to teach courses via distance education, moderate this forum, conduct qualitative research, write articles, and participate in protecting physical therapists in North Carolina from the horrific Medicaid prior approval process --- all while working a full-time clinical load. I fail to see what relevance any of that has on our current discussion. I always have time to protect the profession from admitting lazy, plagiarizing, poor communicating, or disrespectful students into the professional ranks. Were you to enter physical therapy in your present state, you would be not an asset, but a liability to the profession, and before that happens, your program has a responsibility to reform or dismiss you. I have a responsibility to make your program aware of the situation at hand. That's not a waste of anyone's time.
Disclosing the general state location and level of your program had nothing to do with anything other than my apology to USC DPT students. They should not be credited with your inappropriate and unprofessional behavior. That was my mistake. There are 5 programs in your state, and no one has any idea which one I’m talking about. Had my intent been to expose you in public forum, I would have exposed your name and program. That, I agree, would have been inappropriate. In an effort to keep any discussion of this situation at your school general in nature, my initial e-mail forwarded to the director of your program exposed the situation, but not you as an individual. How they choose to handle the situation is not my decision to make, and so, if they request your personal information, I won't hesitate to disclose it to the director of your program. My personal approach would be to handle it in a more generalized manner, but again, that decision is not mine to make.
Working professionals have difficulty with the evidence-based process, and as such, I’m usually a little easier on them when working through these issues. There is no excuse for a student. DPT, MPT, or BSPT, it makes no difference. You should not have asked for working professionals to complete your assignment for you, and THAT is the issue at hand. If your intent was to invoke discussion regarding the 18 studies hit on MEDLINE as some yield conflicting information, and not all provide direct answers to your question (although at least 3 clearly do), your original posting did not reflect this intent. As such, the truth in your statement that you had retrieved these articles is in doubt, but even if you had, your wording of the question in public forum leads everyone to assume that you'd not. This type of poor communication is as much an issue as if you truly were in fact asking others to complete your assignment for you. Either way, you are in my opinion in need of remediation and it is my professional responsibility to disclose that to the director of your program.
Laziness or poor communication skills in public forum, you've demonstrated a clear need for remedial help before being placed in the field. You've further compounded that with your unprofessional response to being called on your mistake. Instead of simply apologizing (either for laziness or poor communication), and posting the fruits of your labor on the site for all to benefit from, your choice of continuing from a defensive and unprofessional posture provides a third area I'd suggest the director of your program address. Like a CI who notes a weakness in a student, I too have a responsibility to the profession to report behavior such as this to academic program in question, so that they may deal with it appropriately.
Finally, the level of disrespect to which you've approached me is appalling. Although I'm rather young and laid-back when it comes to being called "Doctor," or demanding reverence as some Ph.D.'s do, I have a Ph.D., not an entry-level or transitional DPT. That means that I hold a terminal academic degree, I'm on faculty at a DScPT program and adjunct at several other. I give of my free time to assist professionals in the field with their access and review of the literature base, as well as clinical art questions in the field of pediatrics. I'm deserving of far more respect than you've shown me to date, and I'm quite sure that talking to any of your professors in the same way you've communicated with me would result in probation, if not dismissal, from your academic program. It's disgusting that you find it appropriate in this forum simply because we've not met face to face.
Best of luck in the future. If you never learn from this situation, I fear that you'll have a short stay in the profession of physical therapy. Although you made a mistake in public forum --- that's all it is. Learn from it, account for it, and move on. Your passion, if nothing else, is clear and unmistakable. Don't let your ego get in the way of that. Everyone is wrong or inappropriate from time to time --- what matters most is how you respond to the situation. Gracious and apologetic, or defensive.
It's safe to say, that you took it upon yourself to make a mistake worse. Remaining angry at me won't resolve your professional areas of weakness, it only serves as an ego defense. In the future, I would be happy to assist you in accessing the literature base, reviewing articles, sorting through conflicting articles, etc. --- but your evidence-based commitment and work ethic must be addressed before that can happen.
Andrew M. Ball, PT, Ph.D., MBA
[This message has been edited by Andrew M. Ball MS MBA PT (edited September 24, 2002).][/QUOTE]
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