CNY in Miami
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First post in about five years.
I left Syracuse about 30 years ago and moved to Miami. I was part owner od two rehab clinics in Upstate NY with two other partners . When I was down here about a year I made some connections and found a location on Miami Beach to open a clinic with my partners from Syracuse.
We spent close to $50,000 for office buildout and equipment, a lot of money 30 years ago. Hired a physical therapist with great experience as director of the clinic, hired the support staff, spent at least another $50,000 to carry the practice until it carried itself.
About a year after opening the practice is doing well, I wake up, get the Miami herald, I'm eating my wheaties, read the head lines, big bold letters, Miami Beach Physical Therapist charged with child molestation. It's the director of my clinic, he was charged by a parent when he was a staff therapist at a hospital 5 years earlier.
Turns out the charges where false, made by a parent looking to sue the hospital, it took about 3 years to work itself out. The result, my business collapsed immediately, even though I hired I new therapist the clinic was stigmatized. We lost a great deal of money. The therapist that was charged lost his license to practice while the investigation was going on, the stress caused his marriage to fail, since he could not work in PT he went from a $40,000 a year salary to working part time in a store just to try to make ends meet, eventually had to leave town to start over.
The ESPN story is extremely damaging, If Bernie is innocent his life will still change forever, people will always have doubts about him, in the short term the great name of SU will be tarnished, recruiting may suffer. ESPN's rush to judgement and shoddy journalism should be exposed.
I left Syracuse about 30 years ago and moved to Miami. I was part owner od two rehab clinics in Upstate NY with two other partners . When I was down here about a year I made some connections and found a location on Miami Beach to open a clinic with my partners from Syracuse.
We spent close to $50,000 for office buildout and equipment, a lot of money 30 years ago. Hired a physical therapist with great experience as director of the clinic, hired the support staff, spent at least another $50,000 to carry the practice until it carried itself.
About a year after opening the practice is doing well, I wake up, get the Miami herald, I'm eating my wheaties, read the head lines, big bold letters, Miami Beach Physical Therapist charged with child molestation. It's the director of my clinic, he was charged by a parent when he was a staff therapist at a hospital 5 years earlier.
Turns out the charges where false, made by a parent looking to sue the hospital, it took about 3 years to work itself out. The result, my business collapsed immediately, even though I hired I new therapist the clinic was stigmatized. We lost a great deal of money. The therapist that was charged lost his license to practice while the investigation was going on, the stress caused his marriage to fail, since he could not work in PT he went from a $40,000 a year salary to working part time in a store just to try to make ends meet, eventually had to leave town to start over.
The ESPN story is extremely damaging, If Bernie is innocent his life will still change forever, people will always have doubts about him, in the short term the great name of SU will be tarnished, recruiting may suffer. ESPN's rush to judgement and shoddy journalism should be exposed.
