Technician Profile: Mark “Doc” Woodson

Doc’s been there from the beginning. P & O Care’s Lead Technician opened the company in 2002 with Jim Weber, Jon Wilson, and Wanda Stephens. Since then, we’ve grown to almost twenty employees and seven practitioners, several of whom Doc has trained. He taught our prosthetists Greg Doerr and Manny Rivera how to fabricate artificial limbs back when they were first getting into the field, and right now he’s training intern Luke Brewer before he goes off to Northwestern Medical School’s prosthetic and orthotic program in Chicago. Doc leads our team of technicians, whom patients rarely see but who work tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure their limbs get done on time, fit right, and look spectacular.

Doc got into prosthetics back in the early Nineties, a few years after loosing his leg below the knee in a trucking accident. He always enjoyed creating things with his hands and helping people, so he was a perfect fit for fabricating prosthetic limbs. Doc says he gets special enjoyment from making the limbs our pediatric patients use to walk. A single father, he and his son love to take road trips out West, often deciding each day where to go next. Doc also has a special knack for numbers and has become better than anyone else at P & O Care at predicting our monthly billing based on the devices in fabrication. Always competitive and ambitious—and incredibly funny—Doc drives all of us to continually improve the quality of care we provide our patients.