2014 Volume 51 Issue 8-9 Pages 551-554
The number of the patients requiring rehabilitation has been rapidly increasing. Rehabilitation patients and their families face various troubles and problems in their illness, their functional state, their convalescence, and a wide range of domains including their at-home life and care burden. And rehabilitation staffs must deal with these problems appropriately and take pride in their efforts and strive to provide continuing reliable care. However, most hospitals and rehabilitation centers only have one or at most a few physiatrists. Thus, most physiatrists and co-medical rehabilitation staff have few advisers and are frustrated by the many kinds of problems faced in providing medical service and management. In this lecture, I discuss how to build safety measures, how to write medical records to prevent future troubles, the proper on-site manner, and the 15 traits of a disliked physiatrist. I hope that this lecture can blow away the frustration from the rehabilitation scene and be helpful not only for patients and their families, but also for physiatrists and co-medical rehabilitation staff.
