To dissociate oneself
To stand out means to take distance from someone or something, it means to distinguish oneself from the others.
A separate practice marks a clear separation, a limitation, a border between two disciplines clearly different.
It is our leitmotiv in the professional Union for the new… osteopaths.
Why this leitmotiv, why is this differentiation so important ?
For several reasons which would be too long to explain but which I can summarise in a few words:
The personal reason is to be proud to have achieved one’s purpose, to have succeeded on a difficult path, to see one’s efforts rewarded and to have reached a new therapeutic dimension.
The professional reason is to help our patients find their way in the jungle of pseudo-osteopaths by offering them responsible and well-trained professionals. This differentiation comforts the patients in their initiative to consult and favours the “multiplication” of new patients. It is also a way to place ourselves among the other medical professions, to assert our professionalism as health practitioners and to encourage inter professional relationships.
The political reason is for administrative and political authorities to recognise osteopathy as a medical profession in its own right with a high level of responsibility and not to misconceive osteopathy as a sort of recycled physical therapy. Our profession is thus part of the health field at these different levels.
Today the profession is recognised by the Colla’s bill. There can no longer be any kind of hesitation: we have obtained the recognition of an independent profession which in a more or less near future will be fully differentiated.
It is through our behaviour and interaction with the patients, the medical profession and the authorities that we will stand out as professionals. |
