Further evidence, prima facie evidence as they say Barry (in case you forgot that’s a legal term), of the GROSS incompetency of the APMA.
Here is the report that the APMA does not want you to ever see. They lie by withholding information to you such as the rejection of the Offer for Podiatry students to take the USMLE.
You never saw the rejection letter. You would never see this letter if it were not for The Podiatry Post. It is lengthy. You should send this to every member of the APMA that you know.
You should see that not only are the APMA board members, officers and former presidents self-serving and self enriching, but in addition they are incompetent to represent your needs.
This is part one I will post part 2 shortly
Commissioned by the Committee on Physician Parity
Scott E. Hughes, DPM, Chair
Jeffrey R. DeSantis, DPM, President
Introduction
Dr. Curry’s Report: “The APMA 2021 White Paper: a Feasibility Review”
- Overview
- Mandate
- Views of APMA Identified Stakeholders
- Informant Views on APMA Parity Work to Date
- Support for the White Paper Direction
- Informant Suggested Directions for the APMA
- Reviewer Appraisal of the Joint Task Force Approach to Parity
- Strategic Misalignments
- Educational Misunderstandings and Misrepresentations
- Political Missteps
- Governance Lapses
- Management Miscalculations
- Immediate Futures for US Healthcare with Relevance to Podiatry
- Directions toward an Improved Future for Podiatry
- Collect and disseminate evidence demonstrating podiatric contribution to public health
- Commit to constant improvement in podiatric education, training and performance
- Reconsider, redefine and reformulate direct work on parity
- Commit to strategic and operational renewal for APMA
Conclusion and Next Steps
Appendices
Introduction
APMA recently released the first section of the report conducted by Lynn Curry, PhD, which addressed the pursuit of parity.
The second part of the report included a variety of unsolicited feedback and recommendations related to the work of the Joint Task Force of Orthopaedic and Podiatric Surgeons and APMA’s internal processes, procedures, and management. These recommendations were well beyond the scope of the statement of work or the components’ request for this report. Much of Dr. Curry’s advice was based on misinformation and assumptions made by Dr. Curry. APMA planned to share this portion of the report with the House of Delegates in March, but in response to requests and in the interest of allowing ample time for review, is now sharing the remainder of Dr. Curry’s report.
Dr. Curry’s report neither fulfills the mandate of the stakeholders that requested it, nor accurately depicts the past or current efforts of APMA. We strongly disagree with Dr. Curry’s final product. We believe that the inaccuracies and misrepresentations included in the report may pose an obstacle to our community’s ability to move forward in a collaborative and unified manner—which is our primary goal. Therefore, her comments are presented and then followed by a clarifying response from the Committee on Physician Parity.
This report is confidential. It is being shared with you in your capacity as a delegate to the APMA House of Delegates and is not authorized for distribution outside that body.
Dr. Curry’s Report: “The APMA 2021 White Paper: a Feasibility Review”
Please note the content of Dr. Curry’s report is presented here unedited and in its entirety. The Committee on Physician Parity’s response is in italics.
Overview
Investing further organizational resources and reputation in directions outlined in the 2021 White Paper is unlikely to achieve hoped for outcomes and will further exacerbate divisive effects within podiatry created by the Joint Task Force process and resulting actions.
Across the 21 stakeholders identified by the APMA to be interviewed for this review, 14 (67%) entirely oppose the direction, the process, the results and the actions undertaken to implement the White Paper. Four (19%) are interested in the ideas but identify faults that make the White Paper inoperable. Only three (14%) support further pursuit of the White Paper intentions.
The central concept of the White Paper is to move podiatric education towards the allopathic medical model by establishing the USMLE as the standard for competence in graduating podiatrists. The rationale for this shift is the expectation that allopathic medicine leadership at national, state and local levels will then support podiatric practice in the same manner as MDs and DOs. That premise has consequences for the podiatry profession that are not well delineated in the White Paper, are not widely understood across podiatry and are not supported broadly enough to initiate or sustain the changes required for implementation.
The Joint Task Force, White Paper and the AMA Resolution process also exposed a range of execution faults within the structure and operations of the APMA which need to be addressed if the organization aspires to be relevant and effective in representing podiatry in the future.
The current general medical model is only one of several possible futures for the profession of podiatry and is not well suited to the already apparent changes in American healthcare. A range of other large scale actions are outlined that have at least equal potential to improve the future of podiatry in practice. The APMA has the capacity to pursue these directions and the responsibility to the profession to do so.
- Collect and disseminate evidence demonstrating podiatric contribution to public health
- Commit to constant improvement in podiatric education, training and performance
- Reconsider, redefine and reformulate direct work on parity
- Commit to strategic and operational renewal for APMA
Mandate
The Joint Task Force of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Podiatric Surgeons was created in 2018 consisting of two members apiece from the leadership ranks of four organizations: the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons ( ACFAS), the American Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) and the APMA. The group worked in secrecy for three years to produce the White Paper: “Improving the Standardization Process for Assessment of Podiatric Medical Students and Residents by Enabling Them to Take the USMLE”.
In 2019 a resolution, 4-19, was initiated to create context for the Joint Task Force work by providing a particular definition (access to the USMLE) for the APMA goal of achieving ‘parity’ which has been part of the APMA strategic plan since 2005. The 4-19 resolution was passed unanimously by the HOD but as the existence and direction of the Joint Task Force was not provided as context, the implications of the resolution could not have been understood by HOD delegates.
The White Paper was released May 6th, 2021, as already approved by all four participating organizations including the APMA. In June 2021 the APMA submitted resolution 303 to the American Medical Association to implement the White Paper agreements by requesting access to the USMLE exams. Endorsement of the White Paper and the AMA Resolution was conducted in Executive Session by the APMA removing that policy approval process from dissemination and scrutiny.
The House of Delegates (HOD), the central governing body of the APMA was not consulted during the three-year Joint Task Force process nor were any of the other leadership, educational, licensing or certification organizations with podiatry. Approval or involvement from the HOD was not part of the APMA endorsement of the White Paper or the AMA Resolution.
By the end of June 2021 opposition to the White Paper was vocal and sustained across the podiatric community. Opposition grew across the country through the summer.
Following a recommendation from the August 31st, 2021, Town Hall Meeting, the APMA agreed to a third-party review. The assignment was to engage with 22 leaders identified by the APMA in order to hear their experience with the White Paper, their viewpoints and suggestions. Lynn Curry, PhD. of CurryCorp Inc was engaged to complete this review.
All interviews were conducted personally by Dr. Curry on the telephone between October 19th and December 1st, 2021. All interviewees were promised complete confidentiality in order to support candid conversations. The remainder of this paper is a compilation of these conversations and the reviewer’s assessment of the information obtained.
Views of APMA Identified Stakeholders
individuals preferred to have group calls that included others involved in their organizations. The following summary therefore reflects input from 21 organizations and 28 individuals.
Each conversation lasted about an hour. The following questions were used to frame topics and to insure similar coverage across the conversations. The question set was made available prior to the date agreed on for the telephone conversation.
1. What is your understanding of the involvement of APMA in the physician parity question?
2. Should the APMA be involved in the parity question?
3. What is your view on the current situation with the APMA moving towards implementing the Joint Task Force White Paper proposal that all podiatrists be allowed to take the USMLE?
a. What is your understanding of the current state of the profession and APMA with this issue?
b. How did we get here? What was your experience in that process?
c. What is your view of pursuing the USMLE eligibility direction?
d. Do you have other ideas that would move podiatry towards parity?
4. What APMA should do next? Immediately? Over the next year? Five years?
Committee Response:
The committee is very appreciative of each of the stakeholders for their time and sharing their thoughts and recommendations. The questions to the stakeholders were not provided to the committee in advance, and the committee did not have an opportunity to comment or provide suggestions. The committee believes question 4 to be the most relevant question and most consistent with the nine states’ request for this report; however, meaningful responses to the question are lacking. APMA is committed to hearing from stakeholders on responses to question 4 and will seek opportunities to solicit additional input.
Informant Views on APMA Parity Work to Date
Informants are well aware of APMA’s history of involvement in the parity issue. They agree that the APMA should be involved in the parity question but they are not satisfied that the concept, definition and operations of parity are common across all jurisdictions. They further pointed out that the parity concept has changed over the years and will continue to evolve. There is also widespread dissatisfaction with lack of stakeholder involvement in setting practical directions regarding parity, defining achievable goals, assessing accomplishments and adjusting plans.
Many informants spoke of a sense of broken trust with the APMA as a result of the concealment of the three year Joint Task Force Process. Specifically listed was the sense of being purposely misled by the 2019 Resolution 4-19 to justify the Joint Task Force focus on USMLE as the preferred route to parity.
Almost all informants resent the lack of input at any point in the Joint Task Force process and are angered by the haste with which APMA moved the White Paper acceptance through the APMA governance process and into the public domain with the AMA Resolution 303. Given that parity has been an active goal of the APMA since 2005, the two month (May-June 2021) rush appeared to them to be politically manufactured and designed to avoid dissenting viewpoints.
Committee Response:
The committee agrees that more stakeholder involvement was needed, which is why APMA held a Leadership Town Hall, engaged Dr. Curry to interview stakeholders, and is currently planning additional listening and engagement opportunities during the upcoming 2022 House of Delegates meeting. The committee provided Dr. Curry with reports related to Vision 2015. These reports included a list of stakeholders involved in these parity discussions, meetings, and task forces. The committee is disappointed these reports were not included in the analysis of work conducted to date and that the focus of this report is primarily on the activities of the joint task force.
The committee takes additional issue with the characterization of the joint task force and efforts around the AMA resolution and white paper. The resolution and white paper took more than two years to gain approval by AAOS, AOFAS, ACFAS, and APMA and required that all organizations agree to any statement before being released. Meticulous review and vetting were conducted by joint task force members and boards from all four organizations, including professional staff and legal counsel.
Additionally, there is no evidence to demonstrate that the delegates to the 2019 House of Delegates were confused or misled about Resolution 4-19. The resolution passed unanimously on the consent agenda. This report ignores the evidence that there was a level of transparency in the process and delegates knew what they were voting for.
For example:
- The title of the Resolution 4-19 is “PODIATRIC PHYSICIANS’ ACCESS TO USMLE TESTING.”
- The ninth WHEREAS states the joint task force was already in preliminary discussions: “WHEREAS, The national task force has held preliminary discussions and agreed to the need for DPMs to be allowed to sit for national medical/osteopathic examinations.”
- The fourth resolve was a directive for APMA to work to allow DPMs to sit for the USMLE, and specifically states, “RESOLVED That the national joint task force work with AMA to facilitate discussions with the National Board of Medical Examiners to allow podiatric medical students to be eligible to take the United States Medical Licensing Examination”
The committee recognizes that there are members of the podiatric community who are frustrated by the process, and the committee was hoping that this report would help move the profession forward while recognizing there are disagreements. Unfortunately, the report dwells on perceived misgivings while at the same time does not give due consideration to supporting facts.
Finally, the committee disputes the suggestion that APMA “concealed” the activities of the joint task force. While the nature of the collaboration among the four participating organizations required a certain level of confidentiality, the organizations regularly updated the profession at large on their joint efforts.
Support for the White Paper Direction
Among the 21 APMA chosen informants there was very little support for the directions outlined in the White Paper.
| | % | Number |
| Yes | 14% | 3 |
| Equivocal | 19% | 4 |
| No | 67% | 14 |
Among supporters there was an awareness that the process was flawed. However, they also believe that securing access to the USMLE for podiatry graduates is a critical step towards securing parity for podiatry practitioners.
Those with equivocal views see merit in the argument for access to the USMLE but deny that is the only or even preferred route to parity. They express disappointment that other methods were not explored. This group was also acutely aware that the Joint Task Force and White Paper process of secrecy and haste was divisive within podiatry and compromised effective results.
Those opposing the White Paper direction report a range from intellectual disagreement to disappointment, anger and betrayal. Everyone in this group reported dismay that the APMA allowed such a pivotal policy direction to take place without wide and continuous involvement of podiatry leadership and stakeholders at national, state and local levels. They also perceived disloyalty in the APMA ceding definition and oversight of podiatric competence standards to allopathic medical organizations as outlined in the White Paper and publicly confirmed by the submission of the AMA Resolution 303.
Committee Response:
The committee is not surprised by these responses, as the committee selected stakeholders who expressed disagreement with the AMA resolution and supporting white paper. One purpose of this review was to hear additional ideas and recommendations to achieving parity from stakeholders who oppose podiatrists gaining access to the USMLE.
There are several misstatements in this report that the committee believes should be clarified. The committee disagrees with the characterization that the process was done in haste or in secrecy. As previously noted, Resolution 4-19 authorized APMA, through the joint task force, to engage AMA on supporting podiatrists’ access to the USMLE. In fact, for 16 years, since the inception of Vision 2015, access to the USMLE has been a component of achieving parity.
The committee also disagrees that the AMA resolution requires APMA to cede definition and oversight of podiatric competence standards to allopathic organizations. The AMA resolution requires AMA to study “whether Council on Podiatric Medical Education (CPME) accreditation standards are comparable to Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) standards and sufficient to meet requirements which would allow Doctors of Podiatric Medicine (DPMs) to take all parts of the USMLE.” A study of comparability is not the same as ceding definition or oversight of podiatric medical competency.
Again, the committee is disappointed that the report focused heavily on the white paper and false and misleading characterizations of the process rather than developing ideas for alternative or complementary pathways to physician parity.
“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
Noam Chomsky
Here’s ANOTHER did you see it? In a BRAND-NEW “GOOD FEET STORE” AD, a young girl hurt her foot from doing IRISH dancing. The mother said “the dr”(what kind I wonder) REFERRED her to THE GOOD FEET STORE! So much for all those SHOE AND SOCK DRIVES. So much for those newspaper “stories” (veiled advertisements) showing how knowledgeable wtf’s are. So much for your APMA dues to liaison with the MD’s. The MD? sent the girl to the GOOD FEET STORE INSTEAD OF “THE” PODO PEDIATRICIAN OF THE FOOT. (USMLE’s? podiatrists?) NO WAY IN HELL NOCTOR. The quack APMA and… Read more »
Call the federal the COMMISSION ! Latest APMA targeting potential students. YOU CAN PICK A SPECIALTY IN PODIATRY.
This ad crosses the line of full disclosure, other ads are right on the border line, you know the ones with Doctors in scrubs with a stethoscope around their necks. APPLICANT NUMBERS ARE DOWN TO PODIATRY SCHOOL….hmmm wonder why? LOL, I guess students are doing the numbers to financial success and its not in Podiatry anymore.
Pick a specialty?! What a PODIATRIC LIE! Many Pods need to advertise to get any kind of business and they need to augment it with shoe , support sales and unnecessary elective “procedures”. Very very very few foot businesses are purely sports or pediatric. YOU JUST CAN’T MAKE ENOUGH TO SURVIVE. Podiatry will lie to keep itself alive and that requires the school franchises to stay open. Podiatry is on a precarious precipice of existence and that precipice is plummeted by everything from Good Feet Stores to PA’s and Chiropractors. Podiatry lies. It has to because it’s based on a… Read more »
Did you see it? I’m talking about the sophisticated well constructed television ad for N.P.’S. I mean it literally is saying choose an NP over an MD! A variety of patients attest to how the NP saved their life. I guess the leadership of the NP association could give lessons to those guys (APMA) that call themselves dr but aren’t even at PA level, let alone NP level. Day after day the outright FAILURE OF THE PODIATRY LEADERSHIP AND QUACK COLLEGE ADMINISTRATIONS screams for a CHANGE in those loser groups. While Barry Block drools over other people shoes, Kesselman finds… Read more »
Block is back from spending Advertiser’s money on himself and immediately we see the DEGRADATION OF PODIATRY! Sweaty feet from DESPERATE ADVERTISERS like Sid Wesier who calls HIMSELF THE FOUNDER AND CLINICAL DIRECTOR OF HIS FOOT BUSINESS WHICH HE CALLS “QUALITY PODIATRY”. Leave it to lifers to TOOT THEIR OWN HORN. I guess all pods are FOUNDERS and CLINICAL DIRECTORS of their foot businesses though most aren’t so DESPERATE AND ARROGANT to use such terms. wHAT SICK WEAK, GREEDY DESPERATED MEN ARE IN PODIATRY AND THAT BARRY BLOCK FEATURES. Tell me why podiatrists are SO WORRIED ABOUT GETTING CAUGHT FOR… Read more »
I think on some deep spiritual level, they know they’re losers. The problem is that your typical association dp wtf, on a deep spiritual level, is a loser, and s/he knows this. They know that their lives don’t really amount to much; that they are effectively spending those lives beating off. Very close to the surface is the awareness that I’m a zero, a worthless person, a putz, a pathetic buffoon, a fraud, an actor pretending and lying to myself and others. So when someone insults a dp wtf, or reveals reality to them, this sub-awareness comes right to the… Read more »
Sometimes brilliant idioms arise that succinctly summarize psychological sickness in PODIATRY. Traum’s term, “IGNITES A PSEUDO NARCISSISTIC FURY” is one of those cornerstone idioms that describes podiatry’s FAILURE to untangle the directionless and academic morass podiatry’s in. Mentally injured men long for control out of a need to negate their inner insecurity. Look at Barry Block. Check his frightened picture. Men like him in podo politics can’t abide a CHALLENGE and will deride and censor those exposing their narcissism. Undoubtedly, “Traum” has hit on something. I wonder how long it will take the mediocre Mr. Pods to discern they’re “being… Read more »
Hafta wonder if podiatry and its victims, in its’ dying years, spent literally all of its’ time beating off. I don’t know the answer, but it’s fascinating to watch this pseudo profession doing just that. It wallows in trivia, and what it does at the organizational level and to its dues members- it amounts to nothing at all. It struts, it pretends, but it’s full of crap. It will beat off until there is no energy left, and it finally falls off the map (to the relief and applause of many).
Causes of Podiatry failing, there are three. 1. Ego 2. Greed 3. Low IQ leadership. Instead of trying to join up with associations that real medical professions belong to like ACGME etc etc. Podiatry copied all the real medical organizations and monetized themselves. What happened was Podiatry made themselves an island away from mainland medicine and now are suffering for it. The tide is getting higher and higher with others doing foot and ankle care and the Podiatry island is getting inundated. APMA tried to ask for rescue by thinking the MD/DO world will let Podiatry students take the USMLE.… Read more »
They hired Larry, Moe and Curry!
Ritter stool, ritter stool someone’s fool, bald headed schmuck, kiss ass here, corporate simp there. Ritter stool cuz those Toenails make ya drool. Ritter stool, ritter stool, life sucks, gotta clip em and strip em good. Straight across sunny, cuz got a lil’ money. Read the propaganda, feel the beat. tiger beat, kinda gotta cheat. ritter stool, someone’s fool. Time to drool. Diabetic salvations, ruminations, and masturbations. Bald headed beat, with another MFKG tweet!
Barry Block’s on vacation. PM. News is closed. The air is clean and clear of misleadings and lies. Feels good. No shoe pictures. No fake plaques handed out. No “a pod got a job”. No questions on “what is it and how do I treat it. “No billing tricks or shoe inserts sales. In other words, all that’s bad for podiatry’s image as a serious profession is not there. We’d all be better off if he stayed away. Personally, I wish BARRY BLOCK WOULD NEVER COME BACK. I REALLY FEEL THAT HE’S BAD FOR PODIATRY AND HAS STYMIED ITS EVOLUTION.
What does he need a “vacation” for? Propaganda?
Podiatry has morphed into something it is not, a surgical specialty which causes disillusionment among students, and financial problems for graduates. For a small limited license healthcare profession it has made” barriers to success”, i.e. curriculums that are not standardized with numerous testing while in Podiatry school, then a 3 year residency which is NOT needed, then forefoot and rear foot examinations, now monthly maintenance exams. Then you have the 2 dozen organizations and multiple board organizations. Podiatry lost its identity years ago. This endless need to pretend to be like a medical profession has cost it dearly. Cost it… Read more »
Thanks my 30 plus years say you nailed it! Thanks blind times
Don’t forget the monachal fervor for the fake field of orthotic biomechanics. 2 degree post… but it doesn’t fit in my shoe and it hurts and It’s expensive. Nevertheless, orthopedic boards ( fancy name for arch support believers) were monetized. Orthotics mean sales and sales mean money and that’s the FOCUS OF THIS COPY CAT, NOT ACTUAL MEDICAL TRADE. The “old” leaders will not accept the unpeeling of the quack foot theories that podiatry is built on. Remember the big lie. We’re better because we know BIOMECHQUACTICS. You can see how the mainstream REJECTS THIS LIE. Podiatry is suffering, and… Read more »
Here’s all you need to know about the INCOMPETENCE AND ISOLATION OF THE PODIATRIC LEADERSHIP. The Curry report states regarding the “plan”: It’s not well delineated, it’s not widely understood, and it’s not supported enough to initiate it. WTF was the point of doing it?! She’s implying that there are TOO MANY LAZY QUACK PODIATRISTS THAT DON’T WANT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CHANGE. Those C-C+ quality leaders couldn’t even prepare a plan that was cogent and in consensus. THEY wasted your money and time. THE PODIATRY LEADERSHIP IS INCOMPETENT! EGO’S AND NARCISSIM supplant planning and intelligence. THAT’S WHY YOU NEED TO… Read more »
Maybe hire Ghastworthless–he can CONsult in his Hawaiian shirt and speak in a low pitched voice! He charges only $550,000.
Per year that is. What what what what what what an overpaid salary for an executive working for a non profit organization. Were the members aware of this, back then ???
You cannot make chicken salad from chicken shit.
It’s willful incompetence. They’re really clever. Get a bunch of C students from Bingo Bango U, they go to dupe school, now they think they’re “doctors”. Sell them lots of stuff that they really ‘need’-manufacturing needs, and milkem good for 30,40 years etc….it’s a ‘win win’–the dupe orgs get they’r inflows of $, and the Dp wtfs think they’re doctorish. goooo P!
As usual podiatry association much a do about nothing!
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not surrounded by assholes.
Wise words ToeLegit.
Interesting “legit”. You remind us of Einstein’s theory of relativity whereby one’s speed and direction depend on ones ‘FRAME OF REFERENCE’. If you feel bad about yourself because you compare yourself to the money spouting, checkered sport coat wearing, white patent leather shoe, back slapping, cigar smoking, APMA member you’ll not get a good read on YOUR SPEED. Most pods aren’t that bad, THEY’RE JUST IN BAD COMPANY.
This is the end of the road for Podiatry, watch the next 5 years, I can guarantee it. The USMLE plot was the APMA’s last big chance to BS everyone and it back fired. MDs and DOs know you went to Podiatry school, It doesn’t matter if you took a neurosurgery course in Podiatry school and got an “A”, you will still be a limited license provider non-MD when you finish. The residency programs are also all BS, mine was BS, Structure in the program, very little but on paper when CME came to visit, WOW what a great program,… Read more »
Barry Block would ban and censor you for threating his lying machine ATM if you sent THAT to him. T.G. for The Podiatry Post where the TRUTH about the PODIATRY SCAM is told. After 50 years of lies it’s about time. Pods lie when they suggest they save limbs, but the Podiatry Post actually SAVES LIVES by keeping those that want to be actual DOCTORS from going into podiatry.
It seems that Marilyn Fentoon is back. He/she/it can’t abide the TRUTH THAT PODIATRISTSVARE NOT ACTUAL DOCTORS. WELL, ALL 50 STATE LEGISLATORS KNOW THAT. That’s why ALL PODIATRISTS IN ALL 50 STATES ARE FORBIDEN BY LAW TO TREAT SYSTEMIC conditions LIKE THE TECHNICIANS THEY ARE.
Yeah, SHE’S back.
A tolerable fart. Not even a voice at any table outside of a picnic table among other pods in an imaginary field – far away from earshot of anyone who’d care to listen: You won’t hear, “What about the DPMs?” without, “What’s that?” The best you can do is be the leper with all his fingers, and fade into a sunset on a cloudy day – Sure there’ll be pods in medical schools, as cadavers.
Eddy you hit gold again. Podiatry “an IMAGINARY FIELD”!
When you take your head out of the sand, reality is still going to be there. Why not address it sooner than later bored of “directors”? The needs of the many Dp wtfs outweigh the needs of the few. Podiatrists need hope. they got a raging inferiority complex and tons of debt. They need dreams, hopes, and bullshit. The ‘editor’ , pod clubs, associations, committees etc…etc…sells them that (false) hope and it lines their pockets.
Stop fooling yourself. You spend most of your week cutting corns, calluses and toenails. You are a podiatrist. Your x-Ray machine has dust on it. You are a podiatrist. You have a shoe display in your waiting room. You are a podiatrist. You have your tractograph in the same pocket as your stethoscope. You have never given a tetanus shot even though you say you are trained in treating foot trauma. You are a podiatrist. The podiatry schools will never change. You will always be a podiatrist.
Think about it, the serene sound of a blade swiping a callous, the gush of the whirlpool, the click clack clickety clack of nails scattering across the room, the smells of foot, the texture of toes…Ahhh, the Zen Pod wonders not of the heart nor lung, and kidney are mere suggestions, styloid thyroid, there’s no care, and patients clients aren’t there for more than clean routine and wholesome foot care. The Ritter stool, whoosh, a gasp at times is cush – commanders of the sacred foot. And that’s the skinny, it’s a gig.
Archer you are 150% correct though few practicing pods have or know how to use a stethoscope. Ever see a Dentist or Optometrist with one? Pods are the same except less recognized. It’s more likely that Pods have pieces of plaster in their pockets after casting for SHOE INSERTS.
How do you get rid of an old x ray machine. Thank you brothers.
How does one get all these highly paid consultantships from these footsy organizations. Basically, you interview brainwashed schmucks (initial invoice), you then write up report (AKA: “white paper”/summary), that’s the 2nd invoice, then you give said paper to the dolt leaders and ask them if they have any questions. You then submit final invoice, and smile. Make sure you have a smiling website with arcane terms and taking things to the next level for an everchanging world, yada yada, blah blah to sell your “expertise” (nonsense-psycho babble and water is wet, winter cold findings) to the next bunch of suckers… Read more »
Kinda true, no doubt. Lynn Curry and Paul Kestleman make money the same way. Look …………. Kestleman was hired to help defend Dia-Foot in their Medicare audit which they/he LOST. And the USMLE white paper was a failure from the get go. The one and only moron to blame on the USMLE white paper failure is Jeffrey DeSantis. And yes, Jeffrey DeSantis spent other peoples money (ie. the APMA membership) to pay Lynn Curry. And he discussed this with NOBODY. A pure disgrace, indeed.
This is FACT.
Moves,… Samuel L. Jackson would say: “Correctomundo.” Maybe: “These motherfuckers are so full of shit they put the motherfucking snakes on their MF brains.”
So they wear medical caduceus!???!!!
Omission is a form of LYING. BARRY BLOCK OMITTED ROY DE FRANCIS’S ARREST FOR STEALING COVID PROBABLY BECAUSE DE FRANCIS WAS ONE OF THOSE “ESTEEMED” PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE NYPMA. HE OMITTED THE MD’S SLAP DOWN OF PODIATRY. HE OMITS OPINIONS THAT ARE TRUE BUT THAT MAKE PODIATRY LOOK BAD. In other words, Barry Block does NOT PRESENT A FULL PICTURE OF THE TRUTH. THAT’S LYING. How the majority of podiatrist allow him to exist indicates to me the WEAKNESS OF THE PODIATRISTS’ ETHICS THEMSELVES. There should be a MASS UNSUBSCRIPTION TO BARRY BLOCK’S MISLEADING PM NEWS CAUSING HIM TO… Read more »
Shlock IS the poster child for podiatry.
There’s more fucking REAL investigative journalism on this site than mostly anything that the “news” and other propaganda ASSocations put out. Thank you Sir. Let reality speak. One cannot “cancel” reality. Shylock would never publish reality. It’s pretty little lies and selling the dream to dreamers for a price…Must be nice. Podiatry PARODY, not parity. The same org that paid Ghastworthless over 500K p.a., + benies+First class+deluxe hotels to ride elevators, present that odd sardonic Gilbert Gottfried frozen smile and brief case in tow playing the part. Reviewer Appraisal of the Joint Task Force Approach to Parity: Strategic Misalignments Educational… Read more »
I heard Lynn Curry was paid $25k for this report. A report, that based on the APMA’s response, is neither accurate nor what they even asked her to do… All of this could have been avoided if the Board & CEO (Jim Christina) would have just been transparent and kept everyone in the loop. But instead, they do what they want and then pay Lynn Curry an outrageous sum of money for a report that, they admit, demonstrates that she did very little work, and what she did do seems to be inaccurate. As sad as that is, it is… Read more »
UPDATE? That suggests a positive direction. At best, podiatry remains a FLAT LINE of progress. The only thing that becomes more pronounced is the euphemistic rhetoric FEIGNING progress. A few more self-indulgent plaques, pictures, and titles “suitable for propaganda” and the star eyed students sigh, “I got a second chance”. I THINK I’m “just like”, and so, they join the chorus of podiatric praise, open their wallets, and follow the podiatric pied piper OFF THE
ACADEMIC CLIFF! For most pods, though, “It’s mostly, just a job”.
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Free Toes …………… I agree with you. And don’t forget the APMA hired an executive search firm to find Christina. When he was already found. It was a game they played to may it look legit, that Christina was the best candidate for the job. How false that was ! And the executive search firm got payed 10% of Christina’s 1st years salary. Christina is a LOSER and DeSantis is also a LOSER. Ditto Barry Block and Puncha puncha DeHeer.
~$50, 000 paid to the CONsultant executive disaster search infirm
Nice reality! We will have parity when podiatrists (APMA)grow pair !
Christina and DeSantis have no balls. And Geoff Leerman may have a vagina.
Manginas. Girly men. Kalifornia, New Yawkka “men”
67% of Polito-pods say no while >70% of pods want a degree change/full license.(based on several surveys) Terms like “stake holders” dehumanize the podoteriate. Simply stated, its’ a cult of lifer politicos that refuse to distance themselves from the podiatric DOGMA of “we are “the specialists”, we are JUST LIKE, (but the MD’s don’t see it), and we know biomechquactics. They’ll drag their feet meeting after meeting trying to keep placing the square peg of podiatry in the round MD hole . Men, so adamant, obdurate and inflexible in their thought process cannot be honest brokers for the profession. I… Read more »