Marissa, the patient.

Hi! I’m Marissa. Laughably, I don’t mean for this blog title to be a descriptor of my virtue or my personality (i.e. “Marissa, the patient person”), but rather a piece sharing my experience as an actual patient. At this point in my career, with 14 years of being in the physical therapy system (first as a student for 7 years and now as a doctor of physical therapy for 7 years), I’ve had exposure to hundreds of patients throughout multiple settings of the healthcare system. Thankfully, this winter I had the opportunity to become a patient, myself.