Welcome to the Power Mobility Matters. This forum is intended to elevate, levitate, and perhaps on occasion agitate in the medical arena in which physicians evaluate patients’ clinical need for mobility assistance. This forum is at the intersection of clinical medicine and public policy, a familiar place for most practicing physicians. We promise to keep up on the case studies, trends, experts, and public pronouncements, and throw them into this ring for your opinions, reflections, amendments or rebuttals. We promise not to bore you.

I regard myself as a partially rehabilitated lobbyist and now am a public affairs consultant. In a previous incarnation, I coordinated political, legislative, legal and regulatory matters for the 36,000-member Texas Medical Association as their Vice President for Public Policy and Director of Public Affairs...