About Duke

About Duke Romkey

Hi, I’m Duke Romkey and I would like to first welcome you to my website and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to make a positive impact on your life no matter how big or small.

I’ve dedicated 9 years of my life and spent almost $150,000 in education to be able to help people for a living as a physical therapist. And over that time, I have helped spinal cord injury victims walk again for the first time, stroke victims regain the use of one side of their body, and returned million dollar arms back to the baseball field.

Ironically, the most vivid and powerful moment I have ever experienced was when I was treating a couple that was on medicaid and food stamps and the husband had just undergone a rare and hence very expensive knee surgery that had a 5-6 month rehab, but the most they could afford to pay was for 2 weeks.

So I broke the news to the couple that I explained their situation to my clinic director and he agreed to make them a charity case, their rehab was free. They both had tears streaming down their face and the wife gave me a hug that still gives me the shivers when i think about it because it felt like she was transfer all of her appreciation directly into me.

That was the most expressive and genuine hug I had ever experienced in my life, and it was because I had taken away the burden of money and not being able to afford the healthcare that her husband needed. It’s something that I see everyday, and it pains me because people have to choose to suffer with physical pain because they can’t afford the care they need.

Since then it has become my mission to help people not only physically but financially, because one often decides the other.

What Pains Me

1) The fact that people have to make decisions based off whether they can afford a treatment or test rather than if they need it or not.

2) You can’t go into a profession that is based on helping or serving others without being broke or in debt. Why can’t you have your life revolve around helping other and live a good life yourself at the same time?

My Mission

1) To make high levels of health care available to those that need it by improving their financial situation

2) To have everyone that is committed to living a debt free life, be able to achieve it, so that they can live their life free from financial stress

How YOU Can Help

Spread the word. If you know of anyone that has had their life affected by health care costs or have found themselves in debt then tell them to use me as a resource as I am here to serve them.

Use Facebook, Twitter, word of mouth, it doesn’t matter.

Just let them know that I am committed to helping them through their current situation as I have been through it personally and quite frankly, it sucks to feel like you have to dig yourself out of a hole that keeps growing deeper and deeper. Let me provide the rope so they can pull themselves out.

You can send them to:

My website here: http://dukeromkey.com

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/dukeromkeypage

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DukeRomkey

Email me: dukeromkey@dukeromkey.com