DON FERSH is a medical writer in Washington, D.C., and former public affairs project director for the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, the National Rehabilitation Association, and NIH’s National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research. Mr. Fersh has contributed articles to The Washington Post, wrote Heart in Government for the American Heart Association in 1984 and, more recently, is the senior editor of The Alcohol Fact Book for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1993).
PETER W. THOMAS, ESQ. is an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of White, Verville, Fulton, and Saner. Mr. Thomas is the General Counsel of the American State of the Art Prosthetic Association, an advisory board member of the NIH’s National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, and Legislative Director of the Amputee Coalition of America.