Re: ABC/BOC
tony barr
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Collection
Title:
Re: ABC/BOC
Creator:
tony barr
Date:
3/8/2004
Text:
Bill,
Keep the faith.
Most all prior unregulated health care service providers have required a
shake up within their field to clean house of conflicts of interests that
have existed in this business for 85 years.
Be proud that you are entering a field that's primary function is to help
people get back to pain free and normal living.
Rather then be discouraged see this as an opportunity for the O&P profession
to be recognized as such once the shake up and resolution of licensure with
oversight and accountability has replaced an optional accreditation
requirement with no oversight nor accountability.
If you think you are discouraged and lost enthusiasm in recent years as a
person that just wants to help people, think about my patience factor as an
amputee ,and O&P advocate, when 25 years ago, generated by efforts of my
father,also amputee and legislator, whom promised to stop the proposed
Medicare cutbacks for O&P in 1979 was lied to and decieved.
the Academy's and AOPA's majority members voted in favor of action by
states to enact a meaningful licensure law for prosthetists and orthotists
,and promised to work together to develop a model licensure act. Generally
speaking, the enactment of such a licensure law in each state would create a
commission that would consist of representatives of the affected
intersts,i.e. orthotists,prosthetists,therapists,physicians,consumers and
pubic interest members. Such a commission should also seek professional
assistance from a professional examination service.
Book Whole Again, By Lee Whipple published 1980
A ot of the internal and external conflict you have today could have been
resolved 25 years ago.
However ,industry control not price controls, was the name of the game and
both organizations leadership's word and promise was never fulfilled.
You will see O&P resurrected into once again a honorable and credible
healthcare profession in our lifetimes, so hit the books and fight for your
profession.Perhaps this wake up call and exposure of conflicts may do
it...finally.
We will see!
The higher the degree of education, in spite of other having paid less, the
better qualified you become and better you will serve your patitents.The
others will fade away or be eliminated once the delivery of comprehensive
O&P is regulated in every state and control and oversite is provided by
vested intersts.
Tony Barr
-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>] On
Behalf Of suzanne stauffer
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:15 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] ABC/BOC
I should be studying for my certifying exam right now, I am sitting,
hopefully in May & June to become a C.P.O..(ABC already has my $1350.00 for
the honor to do so) But as of Friday something has changed. I no longer
have the enthusiasm to put in the long hours of reading and going over old
notes from school, Cal State University. I, we have been told how
important education is to the O & P field. How ABCs high standards are
paramount in maintaining a quality of patent care that is second to none.
ABC has been trying to make this case for decades. Now on the eve of my
attempt to make it over the final hurdle, ABC has put out a statement that
all this is no longer true. A full time student since Jan of 1998 who has
spent years in higher education, hundreds of hours behind the wheel driving
to and from class in Southern California. Tens of thousands of dollars in
fees and tuition and a cross country move to North Carolina to start my
residency, with wife and infant daughter in tow, all this, all this,
according to ABC is only worth $75.
Thank You American Board of Certification
William S. Stauffer C. O.
suzanne stauffer
<Email Address Redacted>
Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.
Keep the faith.
Most all prior unregulated health care service providers have required a
shake up within their field to clean house of conflicts of interests that
have existed in this business for 85 years.
Be proud that you are entering a field that's primary function is to help
people get back to pain free and normal living.
Rather then be discouraged see this as an opportunity for the O&P profession
to be recognized as such once the shake up and resolution of licensure with
oversight and accountability has replaced an optional accreditation
requirement with no oversight nor accountability.
If you think you are discouraged and lost enthusiasm in recent years as a
person that just wants to help people, think about my patience factor as an
amputee ,and O&P advocate, when 25 years ago, generated by efforts of my
father,also amputee and legislator, whom promised to stop the proposed
Medicare cutbacks for O&P in 1979 was lied to and decieved.
the Academy's and AOPA's majority members voted in favor of action by
states to enact a meaningful licensure law for prosthetists and orthotists
,and promised to work together to develop a model licensure act. Generally
speaking, the enactment of such a licensure law in each state would create a
commission that would consist of representatives of the affected
intersts,i.e. orthotists,prosthetists,therapists,physicians,consumers and
pubic interest members. Such a commission should also seek professional
assistance from a professional examination service.
Book Whole Again, By Lee Whipple published 1980
A ot of the internal and external conflict you have today could have been
resolved 25 years ago.
However ,industry control not price controls, was the name of the game and
both organizations leadership's word and promise was never fulfilled.
You will see O&P resurrected into once again a honorable and credible
healthcare profession in our lifetimes, so hit the books and fight for your
profession.Perhaps this wake up call and exposure of conflicts may do
it...finally.
We will see!
The higher the degree of education, in spite of other having paid less, the
better qualified you become and better you will serve your patitents.The
others will fade away or be eliminated once the delivery of comprehensive
O&P is regulated in every state and control and oversite is provided by
vested intersts.
Tony Barr
-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>] On
Behalf Of suzanne stauffer
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:15 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] ABC/BOC
I should be studying for my certifying exam right now, I am sitting,
hopefully in May & June to become a C.P.O..(ABC already has my $1350.00 for
the honor to do so) But as of Friday something has changed. I no longer
have the enthusiasm to put in the long hours of reading and going over old
notes from school, Cal State University. I, we have been told how
important education is to the O & P field. How ABCs high standards are
paramount in maintaining a quality of patent care that is second to none.
ABC has been trying to make this case for decades. Now on the eve of my
attempt to make it over the final hurdle, ABC has put out a statement that
all this is no longer true. A full time student since Jan of 1998 who has
spent years in higher education, hundreds of hours behind the wheel driving
to and from class in Southern California. Tens of thousands of dollars in
fees and tuition and a cross country move to North Carolina to start my
residency, with wife and infant daughter in tow, all this, all this,
according to ABC is only worth $75.
Thank You American Board of Certification
William S. Stauffer C. O.
suzanne stauffer
<Email Address Redacted>
Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.
Citation
tony barr, “Re: ABC/BOC,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 6, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/222566.
