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Kimberley Barreda

5/10/1999

Since when is the amputee not an important issue ?

Well, that's a silly question since many of you are only interested in
getting more money for yourselves at our expense. And at fighting your
ridiculous battles over whether or not consolidation is a good thing.

We are the ONLY issue for prosthetists.

Trying to discredit me by referring to the name of my site proves my point
completely that you only care about yourselves and not the people who pay
your bills.

You all wander around waving your qualifications around like it actually
means something.

You do NOT provide medical services. You provide a product. Hence your
payment through the L-Codes.

And if I want medical services like dealing with a boil etc, I go to
someone who is qualified to do that, certainly not the leg mechanic.

Well as the end user, I can tell you that many amps feel this way.

The ACA also states that the acceptable terminology is consumer.

Why do you people have such a problem with that?

Maybe it's because we are questioning the quality of the products we are
getting. And I can tell you, that quality is not anywhere near what you
would have the general public believe.

At the very least you don't read the directions and install a component
incorrectly, at the other end of the scale you give us garbage that
supposedly passes for a fitted socket with platitudes and advice that we
will get used to it.

You can try and laugh it off all you like.

The fact remains that we are your customers, not your patients and it makes
no difference how much you try to convince yourselves otherwise.

We are the driving force in this equation which is why we are the ones who
have to sign off on the money end of the deal.

And for those of you who take issue with my site name, have you even seen
it? Probably not. But then you are most likely not amputees either but
are using your certification to presume to make judgements about it.




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On 5/10/99, at 10:24 AM, Tony Barr wrote:

>Thanks for the offer of redirection Mike! I am amazed that, with real
meaningfull issues on the table currently,i.e. proposed O&P Medicare
cutbacks, federal guidelines of practitioner standards,state regulation
efforts,national office consolidation proposal,etc.,the recent termanology
dialoge is prevelent! Folks we got real important issues here!
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