The new issue of MEDSCAPE, a free and highly read information site, discusses the higher amputation rate in diabetics which has been noted during the covid crisis. Read it. There is not one word about podiatry or a podiatrist or podiatry care. Not one !
Every interview is with vascular surgeons. And what makes this more insulting ? They push vascular surgeon owned self-standing facilities. And then to put the icing on the cake, someone writes a letter about the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen, the laser toenail surgery of medicine.
But here is the point. A major, influential publication. The Diabetic Foot. Ulceration prevention. AND NOT ONE WORD OR MENTION OF PODIATRY. Well APMA, Barry Block, David the Alien Armstrong, and the wound care experts, what happened ? You have been told that podiatry is the go to diabetic foot profession. We are the foot and leg savers.
So here you see the truth. Toenail cutting, shoe selling, use of worthless wound care products. THAT IS HOW MEDICINE SEES PODIATRY. And now the vascular surgeons, our “partners” in “limb salvage” have said fuck you. Some of the interviewed vascular surgeons, such as Dr. Kirksey, actually lecture at podiatry seminars regularly.
Now that vascular surgeons and interventional cardiologists and radiologists are making beau coup bucks with their free standing money printing OBL’s, they are screaming priority for diabetic foot pathology.
Once again, you believe the Podiatry Today, Podiatry Management, bullshit that you are the diabetic foot. Maybe if the APMA fat, dribbling slobs were not so busy stuffing their pockets with money, and actually brought academic credibility to the profession, we would not have arrived to this point.
I can hear it now. NOT TRUE ! I am respected member of the team in a wound care center. I presented at a local hospital staff meeting. I get referrals.
This is what the future holds. Incomplete education and various scams lead to incomplete services and eventually services rendered by those who bring the entire package.
Here is an idea for Barry Block. The next time you have your annual diabetic foot issue, have the articles written by vascular surgeons and cardiologists and interventional radiologists.
Please leave the billing advise however, Kesselman, Lehrman, and King are needed !
We still need to sell shoes and trim nails.
How about a shoe with an asshole in it? That would be one helluva picture! Right Larry?
Lots of hopium floating around. Maybe drum bang, posters, resist, bumper shtickers, vagina hat, foot hat, slogans, and chanting will do the trick? It may certainly rattle the levers of power? Or help with that (bowel) movement?
Cue: hysterical laughter. Enjoy that hopium
Also, Cleveland Clinic Journal very recently (2021 october) had an article on toenails/fungus etc..Guess what? NO PODIES. LOL. Maybe showcase that on Larry’s comedic “news” blast! Who ever still practices, attends school, maintains licensure is likely “off”– or massively in debt, fugly spouse, rug rats and basically fucked.
I have to take exception with your ” maintains licensure” point. Once your license is gone, it’s gone, and even the lowly quack dpwtf has SOME value. My position was never about podiatry per se as it was about the LIES that roped many into it along with the accompanying lies necessary to maintain it’s POLITICAL VIABILITY. On the + side. A foot tech CAN RIGHT AN Rx. and can do SOME procedures and have SOMETHING to say about SOME conditions. The problem from my point of view is that since the advent of the P.A.’s that UNIQUENES HAS BEEN… Read more »
LOL!! What a bleepin’ joke. Could you imagine paying 6 figures in loans and be omitted from your “specialty”–fungus toenails!
Would you say that this heel is a real steel
A congerie of dollar catchers, no future, no past.
A SHOE with a Fish in it! Yeah! for Barry Block’s view of podiatry! Embarrassing and, I believe, purposeful. He wants pods money but he doesn’t want pod to look DOCTORAL. With articles like, increased weight from staying home cause more foot problems (where’s the double blind study?) to I can’t buy a new car or gloves for my foot business because of inflation (Udell). Let’s ask again, Hey Elliot Udell. Did you vote for Biden? Love that socialism. then love that inflation. It’s expensive to “everyone equal”. Those boarder invaders have to get their free air flights and free… Read more »
Oh the poor TECHNICIAN can’t handle it. He loves podiatry AS IS. He doesn’t want to hear about Fish Shoes or about socialism. He’s so DAMAGED by the LIE that he can’t even stand reading about it. Can you imagine the CEREBRAL IMMATURITY that thinks anything will GO AWAY if he cries FOUL? Mommy, make the bad man go away so I CAN PLAY DOCTOR. Boo hoo. My negative votes won’t make him go away. He makes my brain hurt AND HE SAYS HE WON’T GO AWAY! What if some of my friends or family read this and find out… Read more »
Truth and reality is a great cleanser.
Podiatry was to medicine, as the WWF was to the NBA.
Ammar Saaymeh and Asim Qureshi are featured in Barry Block’s pretend your “just like” news. ‘Ol Ammar says he’s with the SPINE and Wellness group and comments in the SPINE REVIEW Journal about “ORTHOPEDICS”. Aside from the wtf designation after his name I saw no mention about podiatry. Hiding the truth Ammar? Pods and spines? Oh yeah those plastic inserts correct the feet that correct the spin right? BULL! Asim says bunions are incurable without surgery. Forget finding a cure for cancer let’s find a cure for the deadly malignant bunion! For some reason (filler!) drop out Barry Block wants… Read more »
Shylock’s rag time is no different than MSM-CNN, Foxed, MSLGBT,, etc.etc.psy ops and propaganda
Yes all are LIARS because THEY HAVE NOT TRUTH. DPM, CNN? All the same FRIGHTENED OF THE TRUTH MINDSET. LIARS!
Dr. Bijak : The BAKO “Fellowship” in dermatopathology you refer to is a one week long experience ! Why would someone imply they completed a real Fellowship ? Why ? It’s podiatry academics. That’s why. Look. A hyphae ! A mycelia ! A piece of hair ! A fecal dropping. Toe jam. You see Dr. Bijak, the advanced academic acumen (AAA) of a podiatrist allows in 7 days what an M.D. would require 1-2 years to assimilate. It’s really that simple. Pass the nail clippers please. I’ve got a biopsy to perform.
Oh, I actually thought it was “just like” an MD and it was about a year! One week? Well that’s quack. That’s fraud. That’s a lie. That’s PODIATRY! A DIRTY LYING TRADE.
Totally accurate Seth. Podiatric limb salvage as explained to me in 1982: podiatrists clip toenails before the surgeon amputates the limb. Podiatry talks reconstructive surgery, but in the privacy of the treatment room shoes are fitted and calluses are shaved.
Shhhh! Justin. Some students may read this and actually question if they’re being lied to. Oh, well. those 9 quack franchises know, Where are they going to go? They’ve been rejected from medical school, have a slim chance of getting into PA school. So, it’s one of the ancillary quack fields of podiatry optometry and chiropractic. Even PT is a RECOGNIZED field. Don’t let the negative voters read this they’ll get upset because the truth makes them nervous that someone will find out they’ve been lying that their doctors.
Or the beanotown bombing, all that lower extremity trauma and NOT one, repeat, NOT ONE DpWTF did ANYTHING to help in a real way. Simply, patty cake soft ball interviews pretending to partake in the boston bombings etc…all fo show. AS IF they really helped?! Theater. More propaganda. More psy ops.
Now what happened to all those limp salvationists with their dancing, prancing about limp salvation diabetic style? Crickets. Nope, unless you’re a juan, johnson, or billy bob, say no to the po
LOL. You’re right. There were interviews with “leading” limp salvationists chest pounding/thumping about how awesome they thought they were with great bravado and hoo hah. Yet, more of nothing. Showboating and circus callers.
They went back to theatre–simply, beating off. With “social media” they can showcase their mental illness more promptly and in a more regular fashion. Go fuck ups! Wear 2, 3 masks fo sho! It’s good PR.
“Vascular surgeons, such as Dr. Kirksey, actually LECTURE AT podiatry seminars regularly”. Gee, shouldn’t ‘THE’ specialists of the foot and diabetes be lecturing? (ie.-dpwtf’s?) No! Because the “THE” IS JUST AN ADVERTISING GIMMICK of the APMA and quack schools for self consumption for insecure deluded foot technicians. Podiatrists aren’t bright enough to ask the question, “If WE ARE “THE” SPECIALISTS then why do we need MD’S TEACHING US”?! To say nothing about why we need P.A.’s to write permission slips for us to cut toenails. POINT: PODIATRY, AS A TRUE SPECIALTY IN MEDICINE, IS A LIE. JUST LIKE OPTOMETRY IS… Read more »
Reality and truth were great cleansers. Hence, why podiatrists we’re so offended by truth and reality.
If the “TRUTH WERE GREAT CLEANSERS”, THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY PODIATRY IS A “DIRTY PROFESSION”. TRUTH IS “ACTIVELY” AVOIDED IN SEMINARS, THE SCHOOLS AND ESPECIALLY THE PODO POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Because truth and reality was the “third rail” to dp wtfs. It’s like garlic to blacula.
OH DPM, when you are done with the foot ulcer, please get the PA, NP or General Surgeon to take care of the decubitus ulcers on the rest of the body. Also have the full medical license providers, check for diabetic retinopathy and order the HbAic level.
What do you expect? These are R Ds (real doctors) who don’t have time for DPs…Why? If anyone here has a serous lower extremity issue? Would you see a pod? Hell no. You’ve got some edema, maybe some pain up the leg, maybe some nail funk (koilonychia), maybe the sclera is white, maybe there’s some funky heart sounds, lung cackles. Most RDs don’t believe pods are much use in working up a patient let alone treating them—Re DM: There’s a boatload of DM meds out there, CGMs hip patients to their own blood sugar, and DO see their Ritter sitter… Read more »
Yeah Eddy, I mentioned a few years ago about a pod lecture I was in with a Rheumatologist talking gout. I asked about some hematological considerations and he said THAT’S OUT OF SCOPE FOR A PODIATRIST! and that was in front of pods at a pod lecture. He was there for referrals not because he thought pods were up to snuff in INTERNAL MEDICINE, which he was ,of course, also boarded in. PODIATRISTS CAN’T ACCEPT THAT THEY ARE NOT ACTUAL DOCTORS. I HATE THAT I WAS CONNED THINKING POD WAS REAL WHEN I WENT TO QUACK SCHOOL BUT I SPENT… Read more »
Nope. Not part of team at all. Once the triad’s noticed, eyes narrow, heads shake, and the: “What’s this joker doing here?” It’s a sad state for the lifers who believe they earned a seat at the table, but you know they know you really didn’t. If you can live with that, fine. If you accept it, and realize your place in the scheme of things you could say: “Hey, I’m here to take care of those nails, (a little self-deprecation goes a long way), and maybe a little laugh, and a “Stick around maybe you’ll pick up something.” Most… Read more »
Oh DPM, when you are done “cleaning the ulcer” please make sure the PA or NP updates and calls in their insulin meds.
Why do the “leaders”, presidents, Lifers, and Barry Blocks money making news HIDE THESE THINGS? WHY? IF PODIATRY IS LEGITIMATE. Ans. podiatry is NOT LEGITIMATE. IT TAKES A MOLE HILL (DPM license) and makes a VERBAL MOUTAIN out of it ( ‘JUST LIKE’, LIMB SAVERS, “THE” SPECIALIST, “PHYSICIANS”). Until podiatry becomes honest, ( admits it’s a minor technical trade), I’ll refer to it as a DIRTY PROFESSION. Integrity, honesty, academic rigor, the scientific method (not biomechquatics) is essential to be recognized as a REAL ACADEMIC DOCTORATE. Go ahead, believe Barry Block, believe in orthotics, Believe “someday” somehow MD’s will let… Read more »
Feel better lifer? You voted negative. OOOOH you changed the world, and now YOU ARE A DOCTOR. The only one you fool is yourself and you PROVE YOU NEED “THE LIE” TO LIVE.
He once again proved ME RIGHT! He NEEDS THE LIE TO LIVE and is too dense to realize he himself is proving he’s a fool. Podiatrists are dumb.
And sign off on diabetic shoes and nail cutting