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A recent article in The Washington Post features Pam Wood, PT, of Arlington, Virginia.


A recent article in The Washington Post features Pam Wood, PT, of Arlington, Virginia Virginia, state, United States
Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE).
. The article chronicles Chronicles, two books of the Bible, originally a single work in the Hebrew canon (the final book of that canon), called First and Second Chronicles in the Authorized Version, and called First and Second Paralipomenon in the Septuagint and in the Vulgate.  a young patient's visits to several health care professionals after he swallowed a fish bone. The article, written by the patient's mother, credits Wood with distracting dis·tract  
tr.v. dis·tract·ed, dis·tract·ing, dis·tracts
1. To cause to turn away from the original focus of attention or interest; divert.

2. To pull in conflicting emotional directions; unsettle.
 the patient "enough from his areas of sensitivity so that she could work on them" and for being the first health care professional "who was able to get the patient to talk to her."
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Title Annotation:PTs in the News
Publication:Physical Therapy
Date:Oct 1, 2004
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