So now we get a constant reminder from BAKO labs as to how many skin cancers the foot doctors diagnose each month. So we got the message.
Keep biopsying everything because even a blind squirrel will find some nuts. As they say in the boxing business, every patient has a “punchers chance” of coming out with the right diagnosis.
Here’s another list that “this shoe fetish man” might put in his publication every month. We have been keeping track.
Number of cases of multiple sclerosis referred for evaluation or diagnosed by a foot doctor when a patient presented with tingling in the feet, muscle spasms in the lower extremities or imbalance.
0
Number of patients referred back to cardiology or internal medicine with congestive heart failure presenting to a foot doctor as lower extremity edema.
0
Number of patients diagnosed with hypokalemia presenting with muscle cramping in the foot or legs
0
Number of patients presenting with a main concern of pruritus diagnosed by their foot doctor or suspected by their foot doctor as having a paraneoplastic syndrome
0
Number of patients with swelling of the toes diagnosed as having psoriatic arthritis
1
Well as they say in the foot dermatology business, “keep on punching”.
Making a barry: When you eat too much mexican , and at around 1:oo in the morning, that horrible feeling comes over, you run to the toilet, and explode. The stuff in the toilet. A barry–just Made a barry.
should have read HYPER parathyroidism!
Oh Boy, Monday’s coming and what can Mr. P. do to stay interested in feet? Well, there’s always Barry Block’s shoe pictures to motivate him to pursue academic excellence. He can pass on to his patients his new knowledge about the dangers of wearing GALOSHES and RAIN BOOTS that he was taught by the foot tech-attorney. Yes, on Monday you can take your place with Shoe Salesmen, Good Feet STORE arch support experts, and fight the never ending battle against the INCURABLE DISEASE OF ONYCHOMYCOSIS. Maybe you’ll see a Post op patient who says, “I thought it would be a… Read more »
Well, I’m abashed and chagrined. Greg Ladavotich has managed, in one line, to succinctly express and describe what I’ve failed to. Despite years of my unwelcome, over wordy attempts to describe PODIATRY AND PODIATRIST’S BASIC PROBLEMS, Greg has cogently summed it by saying: “THE DESIRE FOR THE PROFESSION IS THE MOTIVATION, NOT MONEY”! Yes! You have to be MOTIVATED (really want) TO BE a DOCTOR, nothing else. Real DOCTORS are MOTIVATED FOR THE SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND SERVICE PRIMARILY. They don’t have to focus on money because it comes naturally to those that are talented and needed. I’m not saying MD’s… Read more »
40 yrs. Forty years. Huge house, boats, lux cars, vacations. Yet podiatry sucks. 40years in it though.
Money and power spins like the water in a hydrotherapy unit (aka whirlpool!). Round and round spinning off DIRT that never seems to wash off.
From PM News Dear Dr. Block: I think that ultimately people are judged not by the size of their bank account or by their lifetime case volume. They’re not judged by the number of papers they’ve written or the number of lectures they’ve given. Rather, they’re judged by their progeny– both actual and professional. In the history of our specialty, there is no one who has made a greater impact on more young men and women one-on-one than this man. I know he’s really not retiring, but moving on to yet another chapter. I, for one, can’t wait to read… Read more »
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/953/953127273/953127273_201606_990.pdf western college of podiatrickal theatre
Heartless “dean” 2015 made over $400,000+. The “president” almost a million. There’s $340,000,000 in their endowment.
DP WTF, DP WTF!
THE SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS CONTINUES IN PODIATRY. A non MD fake doctor has to be admonished that “the FEE schedule should NOT play a role in (billing) code selection”. No, it’s not like a “box of chocolates Mr. Podiatrist. You don’t pick the code with the most money and try to fit your carpentry into it. What perverted mind would have thought that way anyway? A Podiatric lifer-business mind, A LIFER MIND. A poor multi year (alleged) sx. trained foot technician has to be REMINDED by Allan Jacobs that the PREMISE OF HIS QUESTION IS WRONG FROM THE GET… Read more »
All on target Robert. Any ideas as to what has happened to Barry’s Aussie updates.? Maybe they thought he was making them look bad and got s cease and desist order!
Saddenfield told Roberto to vomit –to get out all his “anger” etc…what a douche bag. Roberto is correct. She’s a deluded lifer. However, Roberto is it surprising? Yes? No? would they pick you as the “dean”–fuck no. You know too much. You are too real and truthful. DP WTFS needs comforting lies. Not realities.
How will podiatry change if its more of the same old shit in there. Saddenfield–just take a long and lovely look. Look at that. She’s a “dean”–Dean–WTF
Hmm… go full license or remain allied. Let’s see: Lower GPAs +Lower MCATs = Non-transferable P credits. Huge debt from the P put into forbearance + some program in the Bahamas that would be willing to accept you = Astronomical debt (with no guarantee of graduation or residency- remember the lower GPAs & MCAT scores?). Chance of that happening with today’s students/conditions of the P? = 0. The stupdent may be willing, but not the money lenders. So why not just skip the P and go to the island of sunshine? How ’bout all of us that have been out… Read more »
Outstanding Greg. thank you for the realities and truths about the nation’s greatest most amazingst fraudulent poorfession. $300,000 in non dischargable loans (thanks Billy Cliton) to be an employee –as in employee at will doctrine. More dp wtf “exceptionalism.” Read: THE sht hole.
Tanx Traum
Here’s a barry list:
1. I am an asshole. 2. I am a wimp. 3. I am an ass kisser. 4. My brain isn’t functional. 5. Anything for money. 6. I love money. 7. It’s my god. 8. I am an asshole.
I have been convinced for years that Barry Block, DPM, JD has always been walking around podiatry meetings with “brown lips”. And if Paul Kesselman is their they are walking together holding hands. I don’t know why Barry chooses to stick his head up Dennis Frisch and Ira Krause’s ass all the time. It would be much easier to just stick his tongue up Kesselman’s ASS, as he looks like a dwarf.
Ditto ditto everything you say about Barry, “the douche bag”.
The score card is correct! Systemic conditions and podiatrists? Hens teeth. Bako Scorecard? A Business trick designed to keep the podiatric salesman making money for Bako. Podiatrists will biopsy more than DERMATOLOGISTS because pods are poorly trained in skin disease compared to actual DOCTORS. An MD dermatologists can confidently identify, through his clinical experience in an actual dermatology residency, many conditions a wtf just GUESSES AT. Therefore, a patient is more likely to ‘BE CUT” by a wtf than an MD. I’d go to the MD first. We know a wtf sees BILLING CODES from his OREINSTEIN- KESSELMAN type indoctrination.… Read more »
Krotch Immumi an oriental lifer. Lotsa pics drinking. Nice. Be careful with “second hand” shoes. That’s some doctoral shit right there huh Roberto!