User talk:JlharrisDPT
Anecdotal Evidence
[edit]Hi JlharrisDPT. Please refrain from undoing User:JzG's addition to the PT page. His addition is a direct quote from a peer-reviewed scientific journal (which I have clarified by adding quotation marks). If you would like to refute this quote, you can do so on the PT Talk page[1], citing published research. Thank you. --Email4jonathan (talk) 22:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
- Physical Therapy And Science[2]
- Eustress,
- Thank you for the note. Understand, my problem with the specific "anecdotal" sentence isn't that it is not cited, but that it is taken out of context. The author that was cited is talking about PT practice in the past and the difficulties in establishing evidence based practice. The original text - and your quoted text with "continued" changed to "continue" drastically changes the context the cited author was making the statement about. eg. talking about the past to projecting to current PT practice.
- Also, as I was not around when this section was added, I question the reason for it's inclusion. It seems to be just to cast doubt on the profession, and helps in no way to better educate the general public. In fact, looking at other "doctoring" profession on wikipedia, I find no other similar entries[3][4][5]
- I understand you may not know the reasons also; but as you seem to have taken it upon yourself to see that this information continues as it is, I thought you may have some personal knowledge of it's beginnings. Thank you JlharrisDPT (talk) 03:01, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
- I can see your concern, and the reason I contacted you directly is because if you do have a concern, try not to simply revert changes without a bona fide justification but discuss them first on a talk page. First of all, I agree with you concerning the "concerned", [concern] part...hence why I left your edit as is. Regarding your specific concern, the section cites seven different sources, and although the article you are referring to is establishing a historical point of view, the anectodal practices are still very recent. That particular article[6] goes on to say, "Personal experience and “expert” opinion guided clinical decision making throughout the 1990s." This may not be the case in your practice, and I'm sure you're more evidence-based (EB) since you're a DPT and not just a PT, but from the sources listed, it would appear that you are the exception more than the rule--but if you feel so strongly otherwise, then you can prove your case with credible sources. With respect to the applicability of this section in the article, I think it is beneficial to have it to promote a NPOV (although it should be renamed and the entire article organized a little better), but if you can find some sources leaning towards more EB practices, that would help. If you have any further comments regarding this specific issue, we should continue it on the PT talk page; otherwise, feel free to drop me another note. Thanks! --Eustress (talk) 15:00, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
