Dennis Oehler and Todd Schaffhauser
Mike Corcoran CO
Description
Collection
Title:
Dennis Oehler and Todd Schaffhauser
Creator:
Mike Corcoran CO
Date:
3/30/2006
Text:
Attn: all prosthetic companies who have engaged or plan to engage the assistance of Dennis Oehler and Todd Schaffhauser for their patients, a word of warning. They will come to your facility and try to steal your business and referral sources.
I have had a very friendly professional relationship with them since 1999. A couple of years after I started my practice I thought it would be a very good idea to have them come and assist my patients in a fitness/running clinic. I collaborated with a local rehab hospital to put on the event. Together we spent a lot of time, resources and money to bring Dennis and Todd down for the clinic. We also brought a number of wounded soldiers from Walter Reed to participate in the clinic. This generated much media attention CNN and local tv stations as well as print media. My company stayed out of the spotlight. This was for my patients. Both Dennis and Todd were treated like celebrities. They put on a great clinic and everyone was happy.
After the clinic there was very positive feedback from the patients,soldiers the hospital. This also helped facilitate Dennis and Todd to put on a clinic at Walter Reed.
And then they stabbed me in the back! Todd and Dennis approached the rehab hospital with a proposition. They would open an office in this area and do gait training clinics for the amputees at the hospital if they could have an exclusive contract to provide the prosthetics as well. They are not prosthetists however they have partnered with one. They were brought to this area and paid to provide a fitness clinic and in return the are trying to steal my business and referrals. Anyone can open a business, that's competition, but Dennis and Todd are sneaky and underhanded in the way they operate. My advice to any prosthetist contemplating bringing them in for a gait clinic watch your back
Mike Corcoran CPO
Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics
Silver Spring, MD
I have had a very friendly professional relationship with them since 1999. A couple of years after I started my practice I thought it would be a very good idea to have them come and assist my patients in a fitness/running clinic. I collaborated with a local rehab hospital to put on the event. Together we spent a lot of time, resources and money to bring Dennis and Todd down for the clinic. We also brought a number of wounded soldiers from Walter Reed to participate in the clinic. This generated much media attention CNN and local tv stations as well as print media. My company stayed out of the spotlight. This was for my patients. Both Dennis and Todd were treated like celebrities. They put on a great clinic and everyone was happy.
After the clinic there was very positive feedback from the patients,soldiers the hospital. This also helped facilitate Dennis and Todd to put on a clinic at Walter Reed.
And then they stabbed me in the back! Todd and Dennis approached the rehab hospital with a proposition. They would open an office in this area and do gait training clinics for the amputees at the hospital if they could have an exclusive contract to provide the prosthetics as well. They are not prosthetists however they have partnered with one. They were brought to this area and paid to provide a fitness clinic and in return the are trying to steal my business and referrals. Anyone can open a business, that's competition, but Dennis and Todd are sneaky and underhanded in the way they operate. My advice to any prosthetist contemplating bringing them in for a gait clinic watch your back
Mike Corcoran CPO
Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics
Silver Spring, MD
Citation
Mike Corcoran CO, “Dennis Oehler and Todd Schaffhauser,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/226333.
