Being realistic, which Podiatry lacks, no one wants to go 7 years for a make believe medical profession and get a limited license with low reimbursement and idiotic board certifications pathways that mean nothing. Yes mean nothing, do simple surgical work in your office You are not going to do lower extremity reconstruction. Be realistic and stop buying into the school and APMA BS….your job will be trying to survive financially.

As long as Barry Block continues to mislead in order to sell his site for profit there is a need to address and correct the misrepresentations. Let’s start with the smiling picture of podiatrist COYER. He says start 2024 thinking about your feet to get healthy. Come the “f” on. This is a straight out an out ADVERTISEMENT. You’ll note that no matter how long the pod has been in BUSINESS you’ll find them advertising. Take, for example podiatrist FOSTER. His claim to fame is that he’s a WELL KNOWN FOUNDER of COLUMBIA FOOT AND ANKLE. Who? Never heard of… Read more »

https://podiatrym.com/photo.cfm?photoid=23030

Is she related to yaakov smirroff ?

LIE to me and I’m you’re enemy. No quarter, No mercy. You broke trust. When I meet someone I’m 100% open in all ways but break that trust and “you’re of no use to me”. Sorry, that’s the way I am. You had your chance and lost. Podiatry CONTINUES TO LIE! It has been a LYING PROFESSION since I got involved in 1972! In 2023 it still lies. Let’s look at Barry Block and Mr. Kesselman. “2 P’s in a pod”. How dare Block allow such MISREPRESENTATION? How dare Kesselman IMPLY that podiatry has advanced in the past 40 years?… Read more »

Podiatrists can’t be what they are. That would cause major depression, severe anger, massive mental problems, etc.
So they lie to themselves. It’s a protective mechanism.

What’s happening to posts?! I answered “Podiatrust” re MD’s and infected toenails. It said comment under evaluation, then it’s gone. The comment was benign and civil though, as you’d expect, contrarian. This has happened to a number of posts. If “The Pod Post” is picking winners and losers as opposed to “OPEN” DEBATE this would put the “POD POST” in the same “controlling power” cesspool as the dirty profession I thought we were opposing. Admittedly, I make a lot of posts. That’s because there’s a LOT WRONG WITH PODIATRY and only a handful of posts are robust. If someone doesn’t… Read more »

Boy I’d hate to NEED TO MAKE A LIVING AS A PODIATRIST now a days. The emptiness ( vacuousness) of this hollow profession is no better seen than in Barry Block’s sick PM News. For decades I’ve read of the SAME WOES, THE SAME STORIES, THE SAME FRUSTRATIONS. Usually about TOENAILS. Poor MR. Pod. still fighting with MNT’s (medical nail technicians) FOR BUSINESS. No, not competition for medicine but for business. Mr. P is advised to turn his rooms into LICENSED SALONS so Nail Techs can trim nails and get them business. Yeah, you’re a MEDICAL PROFESSION all right. Worrying… Read more »

It’s simple Mr. Podiatrist. Just be what you are. You SAY you’re proud of your wonderful profession so why embellish? Admit you’re NOT AN M.D. and that your associations will NEVER allow you to be, do your very minor, very elective procedures, then go back to your office and perform CHIROPODAL DUTIES as your fore fathers did and as future NON MD wtf’s will do. P.S. young students. They told all of us they’re working hard to advance us. It’s a half century LIE. DON’T BELIVE IT. One century later and much of podiatry still fights to touch the ankle.… Read more »

Looks slimy.

I just saw big metallic sign on car of podiatrist advertising for house calls. Is this trend setting??!!

It’s looking bleak for the truth when the ONLY PLACE “open for business” seems to be PM News. Don’t see much happening in the Podiatry Post lately. So, once again, the tenaciousness and dedication of the Lifer’s wins. It’s little wonder that this trade is CONTROLLED by a misguided but DETERMINED group of lifer-liars. So, what do we see in the world’s greatest profession? Pickle ball causes injuries and Mr. Udell says pods should be looking at that for a source of REVENUE. He seems envious of a PHYSICAL THERAPIST WHO HAS A BUSY OFFICE ABOVE A GYM THAT HAS… Read more »

Likely wants referrals from dp wtfs. Some orthos are just as slimey as dpwtfs.

Oh, the blasphemy, the intransigence, the nerve, of Susan Mc Cormick. She went to the podiatry foot schools to see if a MNT (MEDICAL NAIL TECHNICIAN) program could be started. She runs the ‘NAIL CARE ACADEMY’ IN FLAW DUH. It seems they nearly threw her out on her arse. NO NO only dpms can trim toenails. It’s quite complicated, you see. Translated: what will the dpm do all day because seeing toenails makes up a LARGE PART OF MOST FOOT BUSINESSES. Unlike Dentists, who actually have a skill NO ONE ELSE HAS, podiatrists have little that’s unique. DDS can do… Read more »

I don’t think in the ortho MD residency the residency director yells at you because you did not book cases for the upcoming week. Nor do I think the ortho residents hunt through the inpatients looking for any foot sx cases. And of course the ortho MD residency is in an ACGME approved program in an academic teaching hospital. My Pod residency was in a 120 bed community hospital and Podiatry was the only “residency ‘there. Two years wasted. Leaned what I needed in 6 months.

Yeah, it’s hard to argue with his logic and evidence. An M.D. + 5yr orthopedic residency (including complex trauma)+ 1-2 more years of just foot and ankle. (that’s on top of the regular daily bread and butter foot and ankle all orthopods do) Notice how he clearly differentiated “PODIATRY school” from MEDICAL school. Thank God he didn’t mention grade point or MCAT scores or that all orthopedic surgeons ARE REAL FULL PHYSICIANS FIRST before they even begin their surgical program. Does he look like he takes “practice management courses to “increase his bottom line” or gives a hoot about fitting… Read more »

He’s being fair and I respect him for it.