There's so much that we as the health system can do, we as physical therapists can do,

and we as the interprofessional team can do, you know, and it's sad to say, but there's so much that we can do to better the patient's care but also to prevent their decline.

That's what drives me.

That's Dr. Rachel Walton-Mow, a physical therapist in Geriatric Rehab at Grady Hospital, and she hits the nail

on the head in thinking about how there's much more that we can do as teams to prevent

the physical decline of our patients. do as

I've been to prevent the physical decline of our patients.

But as I've pointed out in other interprofessional episodes,

in the hustle and bustle of the hospital and the clinic,

we barely get a chance to talk to our physical therapy colleagues in the number four of our interprofessional series with the American College of Physicians, focusing on learning

from physical therapist experts. You can get CME credit for this episode with a link in our show notes.

I'm Dr. Shreya Trevetti, a general internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and today I'm joined by Dr.

Chris Tan, a third year medicine resident at Baylor Scott and White.

Hey Shreya, thanks for having me on. Physical therapists have helped me so many and There's lots of practical nuggets in here and actually to our surprise we learned a lot of why things are the way they are. It almost kind of felt like a mind the gap episode for a second.

For example, the first thing, you know, why is there this pervasive fear of patients falling?

To why P.T. sometimes document the way they do.

To why some of our requests for durable medical equipment gets denied.

And lastly, why patients may be getting less rehab

than we realize at rehab facilities.

And with that, welcome to Koryam.

Let's get started.

So in the inpatient side of things, it's a pretty common mentality to think, oh, these patients are sick, let them rest, we don't want them to fall, but her physical therapist colleagues pointed out that that mentality may be doing more harm for our patients.

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