Re: Loosing the appeal can u request for the prosthesis back?
Jeremy Berman
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Collection
Title:
Re: Loosing the appeal can u request for the prosthesis back?
Creator:
Jeremy Berman
Date:
4/3/2013
Text:
I posted the question and instantly got a flood of emails.
> Responses ranged from:
> 1.) no its their property
> 2.) no its not ethical
> 3.) absolutely take it back
> 4.) take it back and give them lower cost componentry
>
> MY FAVORITE # 5
> 5.) Call the media and make it a spectacle, play it out that because of your charity your going to let the patient keep their leg, but future patients are going to be one legged Americans because you can't afford to run a charity. Medicare has no heart but I the provider do.
> I could see it with the right contacts making MSNBC or such on a real life outcome of the affordable care act/Obama care.
> We provide a service unlike most! Our results can and are immediate. Watch what a unilateral individual can do vs. a unilateral amputee with their prosthesis. Then throw in a K3 amputee and the difference would bring main stream media to tears.
>
> Jeremy Berman LPO
> Responses ranged from:
> 1.) no its their property
> 2.) no its not ethical
> 3.) absolutely take it back
> 4.) take it back and give them lower cost componentry
>
> MY FAVORITE # 5
> 5.) Call the media and make it a spectacle, play it out that because of your charity your going to let the patient keep their leg, but future patients are going to be one legged Americans because you can't afford to run a charity. Medicare has no heart but I the provider do.
> I could see it with the right contacts making MSNBC or such on a real life outcome of the affordable care act/Obama care.
> We provide a service unlike most! Our results can and are immediate. Watch what a unilateral individual can do vs. a unilateral amputee with their prosthesis. Then throw in a K3 amputee and the difference would bring main stream media to tears.
>
> Jeremy Berman LPO
Citation
Jeremy Berman, “Re: Loosing the appeal can u request for the prosthesis back?,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/235000.
