[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Susan S. Deusinger, PT, PhD, FAPTA” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1602533646067{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]This is the story of my father’s 83-year journey—from life, beginning November 27, 1917, to death, on February 12, 2001.

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My Father’s Journey: a Narrative

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Behind the Narrative – A story of patient choice

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“I think the stories that people tell are important lessons.”

On logic and emotion

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“I think we need to forgive ourselves as practitioners for feeling about our patients. That was always a theme in my teaching.”

More than “noncompliance”

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“I think the first thing the therapist has to do is to reorder their thinking; that a patient’s refusal is not necessarily noncompliance. It might be the right thing.”

Spirituality and Patient Care

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“Now, we have an obligation in health care to provide as much as we can provide, but we don’t have an obligation to force what we can provide. So, then, learning … about the person’s spiritual belief would be very important.”

“My goal is to help, but not to inflict help—and that’s what we do sometimes.”

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