What we think of ourselves as Practitioners

What we think of ourselves as Practitioners

Saunders, Jan CPO

I want to relate to all of you a scenario, we have a Hospital chain in
Florida which has 7 smaller hospitals it owns. They asked us all to submit bids to
come into there hospitals fit there patients within 3.5 hrs of the called in
order. All of the LSO/TLSO are stocked in a deal Deroyal has made with the
hospital, the problem is the hospital doesn't have any licensed practitioners
on staff, so they need licensed practitioners in Florida they do over 350
LSO/TLSO's per year and they are asking us to bid on this contract, to accept
the liability, respond in 3.5 hrs without paying us for our call, time, or
responsibility and to my amazement 2 companies accepted this deal.

What is wrong with us, do we have so little respect for our time, knowledge,
and education?
When are we going to stand up and say NO!
Our profession is in the worst times there have been in 32 years I have be
in practice, the Manufactures are cutting us out, competing against us.... And
yet we still support them.
If we don't start to learn to say no to unreasonable DEALS it will be our
demise as a profession.
Don't wait for your national organizations to help you as they are feed off
of the advertising money from the manufactures and they are not going to do
anything to create a drop in revenue.
PAY ATTENTION IT IS YOUR PROFESSION, STOP SITTING ON THE SIDELINES AND GET
INVOLVED, NOW, TODAY! DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE DEMISE OF OUR PROFESSION.
Greatly concerned;
Jan Saunders CPO ,LPO