Not so long ago, physiotherapists had a very close, perhaps paternalistic, relationship with the medical profession.  But it seems now that our quest for professional autonomy is pushing us further away from physicians and surgeons.  There are few in the profession, I think, that would dispute the obvious benefits of greater independence for physiotherapists, but this is a critical ideas blog, so I'm going to do just that. Physiotherapy has, for much of its history, been wedded to medicine.  Indeed, the modern physiotherapy profession only survived and later prospered because its founders made subservience to medicine a condition of entry.  Memberhip of the Society of Trained Masseuses … [Read more...] about Doctor knows best