Re: Qualified Providers

Re: Qualified Providers

Gingras, Ron -Dir O/P

1/5/2001

Lets all make them do their job ! Well said .
Ron G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Hewey [SMTP: <Email Address Redacted> ]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:02 AM
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> Subject: [OANDP-L] Qualified Providers
>
> Is it possible for someone to stand up and explain in a dispassionate way
> exactly what happened when AOPA met with APTA and AOTA to hammer out the
> language of the Consolidated Sell-Out bill of 2000? I have heard all the
> spin about compromise, lack of funding to match up with the big guys',
> NOMA(should Oliver Stone know about this?), and other revisionist
> rationalization.
> Does the AAOP still consider formal O&P education to be the foundations of
> today's professional clinician? Or will 2-4 hours of an
> orthotic/prosthetic
> overview qualify a candidate to sit for ABC boards. Where does the O&P
> educational sector weigh in on this? Is a BS-level program wasted time and
> money?
> Our national organizations (AOPA, AAOP, ABC) have seriously compromised
> the
> validity of the certification pathway they so ferverently espouse. Their
> only retort has been that any O&P professional who feels aggrieved by
> their
> actions join the Policy Forum and travel to Washington, D.C. and
> essentially
> do their( that is, AOPA, AAOP, ABC)job.
> Every one who has labored for countless hours and at great personal
> expense
> in the quest for their respective state licensure has contributed far more
> to the advancement of the O&P professional than our national associations
> have and in most cases have done so with little or no assistance from
> those
> organizations. The people in Washington, D.C. are PAID to represent the
> best
> interests of the O&P professional. Do your job.
>
>
> Bernard Hewey, C.O., L,O.
>
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