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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

It's About Time

Thank God. It's about time. I have for years been complaining about the amount of apathy in our industry. It is so refreshing to see the people, not the self-serving trade organizations who don't want to affect their advertising dollars, working in a grass-roots effort to try to make change. Getting Sen. McCain's office to pay attention shows the impact of the power of the people.

PLEASE continue to fight this battle as this is just the beginning.

We also need to address State Licenser, Parity, and "any willing Qualified Provider" legislation. We need to write letters and tell each and every patient we see that their P&O care is in jeopardy.

We need to empower our patients to get up and contact the politicians, as they truly cannot be ignored by the politicians or press.

What a loss to our cause when the President of the United States is
photographed with a vet missing two legs running with him while the
plight of our industry not being conveyed is a shame.

By 2010 there will not be enough practitioners to serve 75% of the
patients who rely on us. Too few schools, too many practitioners
retiring, reduced reimbursement, all [are] impacting the number of
new practitioners coming into the field.

We are obligated to our patients and our industry to stir up each of
our patients and set them on Congress & the State legislature, and
yes, the President, if we ever get that opportunity again.

Write a letter to your patients, give them some literature, talk to
them. Do something. It's your obligation.

Don't stop. This is the beginning.

Jan Saunders LOP, CPO

(Responding on OANDP-L to Mr. Daniel Gottry's recent posts)

posted by Daniel Gottry at 7:27 AM