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Karen Taylor, CP (c)

Karen Taylor, CP(c) Miller Centre St. Johns, NF, Canada

Question: How did you get involved in O&P?

Answer: I blew out my knee at age 16 playing basketball. The doctors said there wasn't a brace available that would let me play basketball again. I decided right then that I would make one for myself.

Q: What other member of your patients' health care team do you work with most closely?

A: Physio.

Q: Do you play a musical instrument?

A: Alto sax and piano.

Q: Do you have any hobbies?

A: Enjoying the great outdoors, exercising, paddling-and socializing!

Q: What is the best advice someone gave you about working in O&P?

A: Charge ahead!

Q: What one thing would you change about yourself if you could?

A: Listen more, talk less.


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Table Of Contents - June 2002


Ethics: What Comes First? Ethics: What Comes First?
Balancing clinical, business, and legal priorities - deciding what’s best for your patient, referral source, insurance provider.

Ethics: What Choices Do I Make?
Exclusively Online

How To Keep Your Best Employees How To Keep Your Best Employees
Most companies today are increasingly concerned about the problem of finding qualified applicants. With unemployment rates dropping, the steady stream of qualified applicants that used to be available to managers and small business owners has dwindled. Leading EDGE

P&O Education: How Did We Get Here - Where Are We Going? P&O Education: How Did We Get Here - Where Are We Going?
Editor's note: Prosthetics and orthotics education is at a critical point. P&O student enrollment is dropping, even as the need for P&O services is rising. Other health care disciplines may try to fill the gap... Education Outlook

Long-Term Entry Level Education
Education Outlook - Exclusively Online

MCO Contracting: "Nightmare on Elm Street"
When it comes to contracting with managed care organizations, you can, indeed, imagine yourself wandering in a nightmare landscape with surrealistic skylines, inadequate directional signs presented in hieroglyphics, and bogeymen poised to pounce... Cutting Edge

Getting Behind the Scenes: Who’s Really Paying You?
Cutting Edge - Exclusively Online

New Advisory Board Members
Welcome

Volunteer Organization Makes a Difference in Haiti
Global View

Karen Taylor, CP (c)
Profile

Amputees Look Forward to 3,500-Mile Trip Across USA
Sports Page

“Political Correctness” - Enough, Already!
Perspective

From the Editor
Viewpoints

Technician's Corner
Shop Talk


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