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Kimberley Barreda

5/10/1999

Not at all.

Simply stating my point of view.

You seem to have such a problem with dealing with us as equals.

That is to your detriment.

You do not treat anyone and to call us patients is just a self inflated ego
running amok.

You provide a product on the prescription of a physician or other person
authorized to prescribe.

Your attitude is incredibly insulting and you are proving my point that you
dona care what those of us who pay your bills think.

As for whether or not anyone in the industry would be interested, that's up
to them, but it would open their eyes to the reality of the industry as
opposed to their own views.

They are not the same.

It's a shame really.

Kimberley Barreda
lifelong amputee and purchaser of over a quarter of a million dollars worth
of prosthetics with much more to come.

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On 5/10/99, at 1:35 PM, <Email Address Redacted> wrote:

>Kim,
>
>You sound like a terribly bitter person with a definate axe to grind
toward
>prosthetists. Well I'm an orthotist and have always called the people I
>treat patients regardless of what you consider politically correct.
They
>are simply words, and I haven't yet had complaints about them. To devote
so
>much time and energy toward this issue is pointless. If the product is
>garbage then start your own prosthetic practice and make the world better
for
>amputees and the disabled (I hope this word is to your liking). If your
>rhetoric is what we would find at your cripworld website I doubt very many
>OandP practitioners (or should we just be called product providers) would
be
>interested. Please keep your bitterness at cripworld.
>
>Scott A. Boehlke