Saturday, January 27, 2007

Follow Up on "The Truth"

As a follow up to the post, I sent the below text to Authorhouse (publishers of "PT The Truth") via their user friendly website (compared to Lippincott):

I recently purchased your book "Physical Therapy The Truth: by Monie Phillips, PT. Firstly, I feel the book was overpriced at $28.00 for only 100 pages of content. Secondly, I was amazed at the blatant errors in content. While there were no misspelled words, there were an amazing amount of words that were out of place or simply incorrect. Examples include the "About the Author" section where it states that "He graduated FORM the U. of Miss... [he] was born in Jackson Mississippi WERE he met... his wife...". Clearly the capitalized words should be "from" and "where." On p. 57 in speaking about the outpatient setting: "This setting is WERE the real art...," once again the word "where" should replace were. On p. 46 there are two such errors: "THEY lazy nurses can bring an entire...," "they" should probably be "the," also "it is time to delve OF into..." the word "of" should clearly be "off." The following page (47) has the line "Lying flat OF your back all day...," "of" should clearly be "on." I could go on for a much longer time than any of us would care for, but in the end this is a grave injustice to anyone who purchased this book, such as myself, and moreso to the Physical Therapy profession that is trying to establish itself in the medical community. While this is not a major setback, any lay person reading a book about PT may lose some respect at the unprofessional manner in which this is presented. If I were to turn this text into any of my professors I would not receive a grade greater than a B-. I feel the publishing of a book with such mistakes is irresponsible and not fair to the consumer or the profession that this book represents. Thank you for your time and attention to this manner.

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