Portable Oxygen: A User's Perspective

Managing Your Health: Tom Petty, M.D.

Portable Oxygen: A User's Perspective

Managing Your Health: Tom Petty, M.D.

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After oxygen patients won the right to use oxygen in their homes, the battle started to permit users pulmonary rehab and ambulatory oxygen. The leading advocate was Dr. Tom Petty. If oxygen patients ever had a proponent for them, it was Dr. Petty. If you use portable oxygen, your have Dr. Petty to thank for it.

During his long career, he wrote letters to his patients. Take a moment and read some of them. It is with a great deal of pleasure, pride and humility I present

Tom Petty

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