Re: Florida Board
Ken Noll
Description
Collection
Title:
Re: Florida Board
Creator:
Ken Noll
Date:
11/22/2000
Text:
Dittos from Baltimore MD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Sansone [SMTP: <Email Address Redacted> ]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 12:32 PM
> To: <Email Address Redacted>
> Subject: Re: Florida Board
>
> I own five O and P facilities in Houston and have no interests, business
> or
> otherwise in the state of Florida. Jerry Levitt's E mail to the OandP
> list
> of todays date seems inflammatory and one sided. It seems awful unfair of
> him to paint a picture of this individual without giving him an
> opportunity
> to respond and/or defend himself. He may be the most disreputable
> practitioner in Florida, and if so he obviously does not have my support,
> but your unfair E mail makes me lean toward the unfairly treated.
>
> I was once one of those sales representatives that fit braces on patients
> and was greatly disliked by O and P facilities and their practitioners.
> When state licensure passed in Texas, I was faced with a dilemma.
> Thinking
> If you can't beat'um, join'um, I hired a certified orthotist, and opened
> my first facility. We have seen unprecedented growth, been named on the
> Inc. 500, and we are currently searching for our sixth practitioner (send
> resume if interested). My point is this. Despite being State Licensure's
> biggest success story and one of it's biggest proponents, I am still
> labeled
> as not being an advocate of State Licensure.
>
> I don't know who Hugh Panton is and have never heard of him, but give the
> poor guy a chance to defend himself.
>
>
> Joe Sansone
> CEO TMC Brace Place
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Sansone [SMTP: <Email Address Redacted> ]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 12:32 PM
> To: <Email Address Redacted>
> Subject: Re: Florida Board
>
> I own five O and P facilities in Houston and have no interests, business
> or
> otherwise in the state of Florida. Jerry Levitt's E mail to the OandP
> list
> of todays date seems inflammatory and one sided. It seems awful unfair of
> him to paint a picture of this individual without giving him an
> opportunity
> to respond and/or defend himself. He may be the most disreputable
> practitioner in Florida, and if so he obviously does not have my support,
> but your unfair E mail makes me lean toward the unfairly treated.
>
> I was once one of those sales representatives that fit braces on patients
> and was greatly disliked by O and P facilities and their practitioners.
> When state licensure passed in Texas, I was faced with a dilemma.
> Thinking
> If you can't beat'um, join'um, I hired a certified orthotist, and opened
> my first facility. We have seen unprecedented growth, been named on the
> Inc. 500, and we are currently searching for our sixth practitioner (send
> resume if interested). My point is this. Despite being State Licensure's
> biggest success story and one of it's biggest proponents, I am still
> labeled
> as not being an advocate of State Licensure.
>
> I don't know who Hugh Panton is and have never heard of him, but give the
> poor guy a chance to defend himself.
>
>
> Joe Sansone
> CEO TMC Brace Place
>
>
Citation
Ken Noll, “Re: Florida Board,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215294.
