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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Need For Appropriate Credentialing

Dan,

I would like to commend you on your vigilance in alerting the O&P community of challenges you are encountering as an amputee and Linkia.

I do have a concern regarding the Industry Response #11 and the amputee who is being cared for by the CO. In my opinion it is a disservice to the amputee being cared for by this CO and to this CO's professional colleagues that this CO has not pursued credentialing to become a Certified Prosthetist. The analogy to this is that of someone hiring a plumber to do their electrical work. It is damaging to this profession and to the amputee, that a Certified Orthotist provides an amputee their care via Orthotic Credentials without ever perusing or passing their Prosthetic credentialing.

I would hope that in this age of scrutiny our profession is undergoing, that amputee and O&P clinician together fight, for appropriate credentialing when caring for the person seeking O&P care.

Sincerely,

Name Withheld

posted by Daniel Gottry at 3:13 PM