Re: Response to Northwestern Educator
Philip P Tamoush
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Title:
Re: Response to Northwestern Educator
Creator:
Philip P Tamoush
Date:
8/15/2003
Text:
Forgive me, I should have added that I am aware that Kurt Collier is an
amputee as well as a practitioner, but I think he is more allied with the
professionals perceputally than with amputees themselves. Not trying to
degrade Kurt's good works or ACA, but the fact is, ACA needs more and
stronger solo-amputee leadership and still needs to push on advocacy as
we move along with neg-reg finalization, state licensing, pt and ot
involvement, etc. Phil Tamoush
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:21:13 +0000 James Addams < <Email Address Redacted> >
writes:
> Just a question to the list serve and Tom, but what would a educator
> from an
> institute know about real world business? Having meet you at an
> academy
> meeting Tom, I believe I am correct that you have never left
> Northwestern,
> when you graduated you stayed on site and started teaching? Correct
> the
> list serve if I am wrong.
>
> So how does someone who has never worked outside of an edcuaitonal
> institute
> have any idea of what the real world is all about. Tom, you need to
> get out
> from behind the teachers desk. In the real world you need to build
> a
> buisiness, find referrals and maintain your lively hood to keep food
> on the
> table. This Ossur debate is effecting the industry, your pompous
> response
> by concluding with Next Discussion shows that you are really out
> of touch
> with what is going on in the profession.
>
> I hope you are not in charge of teaching the business or ethics
> portion of
> the program at Northwestern, if you are, our industry is in even
> more
> trouble than we think.
>
>
> Dear James,
> Isn't this the same thing Hanger has been doing for the
> last
> few years. We have model patients come into Northwestern with
> Hanger
> brochures for a patient clinic and wondering how Hanger got their
> names. When they do attend they find out that EVERYBODY there needs
> a
> new socket...a Hanger socket for more comfort. How is Ossur so
> different?
>
> Ossur has been competing with Hanger since the big fallout between
> the two. Let the Ossur and Hanger conflict run its course.
> Hopefully
> for the sake of the profession, they put the ego's aside and make
> up.
>
> Please let's not get this argument started again.
>
> Bottom line, if your secure in your abilities as a practitioner,
> your
> good, and your patients are happy they will not leave you.
>
> Next discussion!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas Karolewski, CP, FAAOP
>
> --
> Thomas Karolewski, C.P.,FAAOP
> Assistant Director of Prosthetics Education
> Northwestern University Prosthetics- Orthotics Center
> 1(312)238-1182
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE*
> <URL Redacted>
>
>
amputee as well as a practitioner, but I think he is more allied with the
professionals perceputally than with amputees themselves. Not trying to
degrade Kurt's good works or ACA, but the fact is, ACA needs more and
stronger solo-amputee leadership and still needs to push on advocacy as
we move along with neg-reg finalization, state licensing, pt and ot
involvement, etc. Phil Tamoush
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:21:13 +0000 James Addams < <Email Address Redacted> >
writes:
> Just a question to the list serve and Tom, but what would a educator
> from an
> institute know about real world business? Having meet you at an
> academy
> meeting Tom, I believe I am correct that you have never left
> Northwestern,
> when you graduated you stayed on site and started teaching? Correct
> the
> list serve if I am wrong.
>
> So how does someone who has never worked outside of an edcuaitonal
> institute
> have any idea of what the real world is all about. Tom, you need to
> get out
> from behind the teachers desk. In the real world you need to build
> a
> buisiness, find referrals and maintain your lively hood to keep food
> on the
> table. This Ossur debate is effecting the industry, your pompous
> response
> by concluding with Next Discussion shows that you are really out
> of touch
> with what is going on in the profession.
>
> I hope you are not in charge of teaching the business or ethics
> portion of
> the program at Northwestern, if you are, our industry is in even
> more
> trouble than we think.
>
>
> Dear James,
> Isn't this the same thing Hanger has been doing for the
> last
> few years. We have model patients come into Northwestern with
> Hanger
> brochures for a patient clinic and wondering how Hanger got their
> names. When they do attend they find out that EVERYBODY there needs
> a
> new socket...a Hanger socket for more comfort. How is Ossur so
> different?
>
> Ossur has been competing with Hanger since the big fallout between
> the two. Let the Ossur and Hanger conflict run its course.
> Hopefully
> for the sake of the profession, they put the ego's aside and make
> up.
>
> Please let's not get this argument started again.
>
> Bottom line, if your secure in your abilities as a practitioner,
> your
> good, and your patients are happy they will not leave you.
>
> Next discussion!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas Karolewski, CP, FAAOP
>
> --
> Thomas Karolewski, C.P.,FAAOP
> Assistant Director of Prosthetics Education
> Northwestern University Prosthetics- Orthotics Center
> 1(312)238-1182
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE*
> <URL Redacted>
>
>
Citation
Philip P Tamoush, “Re: Response to Northwestern Educator,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 6, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/221628.
