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October Filings

Another month goes by (wasn’t it National Physical Therapy Month?), more things to file. #pet peeve #3 My Pet Peeve series will continue-getting lots of others to crowd source theirs as well. My #3 is to long to tweet, too…

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If you can’t pass #physicaltherapy legislation, investigate its Board

Call it sour grapes or waste of tax payer’s money but the good friend of California’s Medical Association, legislator Mary Hayashi has requested a full blown audit of the California Physical Therapy Board at a cost of $188,00. In her…

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Full Page #Physicaltherapy ad in California

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Medicare Abuse Reported in WSJ-The Issue behind the Issue

Dear WSJ: I loved your article Confidentiality Cloaks Medicare Abuse regarding physical therapy billings and your previous article Top Spine Surgeons Reap Royalties on the questionable payments by spinal implant companies . By the way, I spend a lot of…

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D.C. Promoting Female Condoms

My best friend and I have never had a problem talking about sex and anything that goes along with that topic. We are probably more open with each other than other friends I know who admit they rarely broach the subject of sex with their BFFs. Now, gabbing on…

Forever 21’s New Maternity Line

For some insane reason, my husband records “The View”. Yes, you heard me right. My husband. I never quite pinpointed why he suddenly started watching this daytime talk show. Was it because he thought I wanted to watch it when I got home from work? Does he have a…

Chinese Universities Ramp Up Sexual Education

All over the globe, nations are battling the AIDS / HIV epidemic. In many countries, especially third-world ones, getting a good handle on the infection rate is virtually impossible. Even industrialized countries like China are grappling with ways to determine an accurate HIV/AIDS infection rate amongst its population. In…

Affordable Care Act Helps Pregnant/Parenting Teens and Women

I have spoken of the many people I knew growing up in middle and high school that got pregnant at a very early age and decided to go through with the pregnancy. Most of these girls I knew that decided to have their babies at such a young age…

Haunting Sexual Pasts

I am sure my friends love how easily I throw them under the bus, offering up stories of their various sexual shenanigans and past love lives. Due to the nature of today’s post, I will not be offering up any of their stories because if I did, I would…

Hispanic Teenage Pregnancy Rates On The Rise

I have remarked in my writings before of my upbringing in my beloved San Antonio. My neighbor had two (or was it three) children before she graduated high school and it was commonplace at my middle school to see pregnant students wobbling down the hallways heading to their classrooms….