Tony's rave and rant
george boyer
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Title:
Tony's rave and rant
Creator:
george boyer
Date:
7/11/1999
Text:
HOLD YOUR HORSES, TONY!!! Whoa!! Just step back and get your face out of the typeface. You get angry and excited and your whole approach goes down the drain.
I DO NOT attack all practitioners, certified or otherwise....I am suggesting that some attention be given to assuring that prosthetists are indeed talented for the work they try to do. I AM saying that as with the certification procedures in ANY other field passing a test in no way assures talent or mastery of the art involved. I am saying that we must devise ways to correct this if we are to improve the experience of the amputees who are served. Certification is desirable and useful, but not
for assuring talented practitioners.
My analogy using the residency program in surgery points to the residency program in medicine in general, not just to orthopedic work. A P&O residency of 2000 hours is not adequate. I have very little knowledge of orthopedic surgery. My spelling is more reliable :-)
Many of those coming into the field, as well as those working now, want and deserve professional recognition. ALL AMPUTEES want and deserve more assurance that the person acting as their prosthetist will be talented in carrying out their work.
I am not in your way. I am pointing to the goal which is most desirable and comprehensive.
Some of you are really freaked by the Amputee Union idea, it seems. How does any union get started? Review your history. Hardly meaningless rhetoric.
And by way of responding to your ad hominem comments, Tony....please be advised that I am certainly not an angry man. An amputation is a misfortune for anyone, but in this regard I have been very lucky in finding a truly gifted prosthetist (Bill Copeland in Tampa) and my stump and the limb are superbly comfortable. Being happy in my own situation, my effort is to draw attention to the ways in which the lot of my fellow amputees might be truly improved.
George B.
Tony Barr wrote:
> Again a theory full of holes! Your suggestions are becoming more of the problem than beginnings of solutions.
> You yourself exclaimed If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem........
I DO NOT attack all practitioners, certified or otherwise....I am suggesting that some attention be given to assuring that prosthetists are indeed talented for the work they try to do. I AM saying that as with the certification procedures in ANY other field passing a test in no way assures talent or mastery of the art involved. I am saying that we must devise ways to correct this if we are to improve the experience of the amputees who are served. Certification is desirable and useful, but not
for assuring talented practitioners.
My analogy using the residency program in surgery points to the residency program in medicine in general, not just to orthopedic work. A P&O residency of 2000 hours is not adequate. I have very little knowledge of orthopedic surgery. My spelling is more reliable :-)
Many of those coming into the field, as well as those working now, want and deserve professional recognition. ALL AMPUTEES want and deserve more assurance that the person acting as their prosthetist will be talented in carrying out their work.
I am not in your way. I am pointing to the goal which is most desirable and comprehensive.
Some of you are really freaked by the Amputee Union idea, it seems. How does any union get started? Review your history. Hardly meaningless rhetoric.
And by way of responding to your ad hominem comments, Tony....please be advised that I am certainly not an angry man. An amputation is a misfortune for anyone, but in this regard I have been very lucky in finding a truly gifted prosthetist (Bill Copeland in Tampa) and my stump and the limb are superbly comfortable. Being happy in my own situation, my effort is to draw attention to the ways in which the lot of my fellow amputees might be truly improved.
George B.
Tony Barr wrote:
> Again a theory full of holes! Your suggestions are becoming more of the problem than beginnings of solutions.
> You yourself exclaimed If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem........
Citation
george boyer, “Tony's rave and rant,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 26, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/212190.
