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Jim Middleton says he is living the dream. The Billings, Montana, clinician encountered prosthetics in 1987 as a volunteer at the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) in Winter Park, Colorado. After talking with the athletes about their prostheses, he decided that a bad prosthetic fit came from one of two problems—the prosthetist didn’t listen when told about an issue during the fitting, or the fitting process felt rushed. Middleton says he realized he could be happy both listening and working slowly, and that his amputee patients “also seemed to know something about life that I didn’t, and my impression was that through their trauma they were forced to consider what life is about and what was important.”
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