Re: Let the Games Begin
Philip P Tamoush
Description
Collection
Title:
Re: Let the Games Begin
Creator:
Philip P Tamoush
Date:
8/15/2003
Text:
Friends: I concur completely. This is bad pr for OSSUR, but most
especially for the Amputee Coalition of America. ACA is really supposed
to be an amputee-led organization. It has not been for a good number of
years. I usually don't make public my concerns about the future, but this
one should not be ignored. Phil Tamoush
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:00:39 +0000 James Addams < <Email Address Redacted> >
writes:
> Back to the Ossur debate, for those of you waiting for the smoking
> gun to
> prove that Ossur is and will be attempting to take your patients
> away from
> you, well here it is.
>
> Ossur has just sent out invitations to patients to attend an
> Amputee
> Mobility and Performance Clinic 2003. These clinics are being held
> in
> Nashua, Chicago, San Diego and Kansas City. These free one day
> clinics are
> being taught by Robert Gailey and Kurt Collier.
>
> There are three aspects of the brochure that I find extremely
> distressing:
>
> First, one of the claims made in the brochure, and this is a direct
> copy of
> the text. “Prosthetic Components-make the right Choice. Lean about
> design
> and functional difference among available components and learn how
> these
> options may benefit you.”
>
> Second, this brochure was brought to me by one of my patients who
> tells me
> he has NEVER contacted Flex Foot or Ossur. In fact he wanted to
> know why he
> was receiving this junk mail from Ossur and concluded that I must
> have sold
> his name to Ossur. The only way Ossur could have accessed this
> patient’s
> address is from the warrantee card, there is no other explanation.
>
> Third, Kurt Collier, a previous employee of Ossur and one of the
> presenters
> for the seminar, is promoted as being the current Chairman of the
> Amputee
> Coalition of America. Looks like Ossur is using their money to
> purchase
> all the patient contacts and influence they can in our industry.
>
> Are you ready to have an Ossur representative and Chairman of the
> ACA
> evaluate your patient at these seminars and then tell them what is
> wrong
> with the prosthesis you made and then recommend that they be fit
> with an
> Ossur product from an Ossur facility?
>
> What Ossur is doing is dead wrong, it is bad for patient care, it is
> bad for
> our industry and it is bad for our reputation. If you are still
> supporting
> Ossur by using their products, stop and take a good long look at
> Ossur
> business practices, they are about pushing Ossur product and pushing
> Ossur
> sales, they do not appear to care about patients or the industry as
> a whole.
>
> Call Ossur and ask for a copy of the brochure so you can see for
> yourself,
> or better yet, just ask one of your patients, I am sure they will
> recieve a
> brochure very soon from Ossur.
>
> James Addams
> Prosthetist
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE*
> <URL Redacted>
>
>
especially for the Amputee Coalition of America. ACA is really supposed
to be an amputee-led organization. It has not been for a good number of
years. I usually don't make public my concerns about the future, but this
one should not be ignored. Phil Tamoush
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:00:39 +0000 James Addams < <Email Address Redacted> >
writes:
> Back to the Ossur debate, for those of you waiting for the smoking
> gun to
> prove that Ossur is and will be attempting to take your patients
> away from
> you, well here it is.
>
> Ossur has just sent out invitations to patients to attend an
> Amputee
> Mobility and Performance Clinic 2003. These clinics are being held
> in
> Nashua, Chicago, San Diego and Kansas City. These free one day
> clinics are
> being taught by Robert Gailey and Kurt Collier.
>
> There are three aspects of the brochure that I find extremely
> distressing:
>
> First, one of the claims made in the brochure, and this is a direct
> copy of
> the text. “Prosthetic Components-make the right Choice. Lean about
> design
> and functional difference among available components and learn how
> these
> options may benefit you.”
>
> Second, this brochure was brought to me by one of my patients who
> tells me
> he has NEVER contacted Flex Foot or Ossur. In fact he wanted to
> know why he
> was receiving this junk mail from Ossur and concluded that I must
> have sold
> his name to Ossur. The only way Ossur could have accessed this
> patient’s
> address is from the warrantee card, there is no other explanation.
>
> Third, Kurt Collier, a previous employee of Ossur and one of the
> presenters
> for the seminar, is promoted as being the current Chairman of the
> Amputee
> Coalition of America. Looks like Ossur is using their money to
> purchase
> all the patient contacts and influence they can in our industry.
>
> Are you ready to have an Ossur representative and Chairman of the
> ACA
> evaluate your patient at these seminars and then tell them what is
> wrong
> with the prosthesis you made and then recommend that they be fit
> with an
> Ossur product from an Ossur facility?
>
> What Ossur is doing is dead wrong, it is bad for patient care, it is
> bad for
> our industry and it is bad for our reputation. If you are still
> supporting
> Ossur by using their products, stop and take a good long look at
> Ossur
> business practices, they are about pushing Ossur product and pushing
> Ossur
> sales, they do not appear to care about patients or the industry as
> a whole.
>
> Call Ossur and ask for a copy of the brochure so you can see for
> yourself,
> or better yet, just ask one of your patients, I am sure they will
> recieve a
> brochure very soon from Ossur.
>
> James Addams
> Prosthetist
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE*
> <URL Redacted>
>
>
Citation
Philip P Tamoush, “Re: Let the Games Begin,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 6, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/221584.
