According to a survey published in PM News, a podiatrist can earn as much money after 35 years as an orthopedic surgeon makes in one year.
Or a podiatrist running horse shit publications.
Or running practice management advise services.
Or professional lecturers in areas like make pretend dermatology or infectious disease or how to code.
Or APMA ex-presidents consulting for corporations. Of course the survey did not include massive loan debt.
Or the fact that employed orthopedic surgeons have a lower overhead cost coming out of their earnings.
So …………. Congratulations podiatry.
Keep those nail clippers moving.
Yeah, A whitening is a tad elective. However these outliers are just that. Yeah, we have no argument re crooked MD’s out there too. I guess I keep thinking of the GENTLEMAN THIEF vs. the Street Thug.
Well, “Toe Legit”, I don’t know about the “smart thing”. After all, the Chicago con men got me to take the bait and sign on for 4. I’m wondering what you are thinking when you are on the exam table with a major symptom and the MD is the only professional you can turn to? Are you thinking I wonder if he’s going to up code this visit, sell something, or “I HOPE THE F THIS GUY KNOWS WHAT HE’S DOING BECAUSE THE MD IS THE LAST STOP BEFORE THE GRIM REAPER. No matter how you characterize the MD, morally… Read more »
All i know is that i had 1 minor cavity, moved, then went to a new dentist (latina, immigrant, lotsa loans and overhead, talks a good game) states that i got 11 cavities. That definitely a WTF hustle. Never went back. Another bullshit artist. ToeLegit2Quit is right, down the street there’s a plastic surgeon with pics of breasts, anus whitening ( I AM NOT KIDDING), whatever with gimmicks 2 for 1s, raffles, promo specials, summertyme deals, hot deals, come on down, kinda like opthos, derms. These MDS are def not last stop before death. We’re already dead with anus whitening…..
Well, I see the worm turning in favor of the wtf’s and the anti MD sentiment makes me thing I’m at a seminar of wtf’s blaming MD’s for everything. I’m not sure what anecdotes or articles your reading but in my 10 years “on the floors, in the lab, drawing bilirubin’s on 2hr old infants in the neonatal ICU or running ECG’S in the ER, I’ve seen and worked with MD’s who of course get paid but I can assure you enjoy the satisfaction of life saving, assuaging acute pain and speaking softly to a patient with an elevated blood… Read more »
Many MDs are just as scummy as most DMPs and DDSs. The days of altruistic lure are long gone if there were really were days like that? Maybe embellished stories to sell crapola. DDSs? Just go to a new dentist and see how many “cavities “ your old dentist “missed”. All a hustle man. MD plastic pos—Raffles, “free” this that, come on down, discounts, coupons, fancy websites, sell sell buy buy. Pics of breasts and vaginas ready for renovation on “social” media nonsense,, etc. tell em they need this that and Code code. Come on Robert you’re too smart to… Read more »
Well, I see the worm turning in favor of the wtf’s and the anti MD sentiment makes me thing I’m at a seminar of wtf’s blaming MD’s for everything. I’m not sure what anecdotes or articles your reading but in my 10 years “on the floors, in the lab, drawing bilirubin’s on 2hr old infants in the neonatal ICU or running ECG’S in the ER, I’ve seen and worked with MD’s who of course get paid but I can assure you enjoy the satisfaction of life saving, assuaging acute pain and speaking softly to a patient with an elevated blood… Read more »
Didn’t understand the sentence, who would do doctoring when its a business for profiteering? I would like to remind all that medicine was a “calling”, a service, a type of religious endeavor prior to the advent of insurance. For millennia PHYSICIANS were “poor” dedicated humanists. There was little other benefit. Once the purse of insurance opened certain personalities arose and dove in. I know most podiatrists only have a tangential brush with REAL HOSPITAL LIFE but for 10 years before becoming a wtf I WAS IN THE MAINSTREAM and saw dedicated DOCTORS working in the wee hours for the satisfaction… Read more »
Robert, man, you got some good pts. However, medicine changed. It’s all about the benjamins. Insurance own and run the show brother. And yes, that ICU doc runnin code may not be thinking about codes/billing, but you sure as bear shitting in the woods know there’s some insurance “MD”, MBA, or finance analyst coding up a storm for that code. And that’s the truth. Horatio Alger stories of ultra-dedicate/humanists-doctors and feel good rhetoric was nice. Like apple pie with some vanilla cream baby. That’s nostalgia. It’s 2019. It’s all abt the benjamins baby, not Andy Griffith, MD, think Ron Popeil,… Read more »
We definitely have intersecting lines of agreement and I agree the MD is not the holy of holy’s BUT compared to podiatry I personally acquiesce to them. Even though I don’t calculate integrals anymore or remember “Modus Polens” I WAS TAUGHT THEY EXIST. NOT HAVING EVER HEARD OF THEM I WOULD HAVE NO WAY TO LOOK IT UP OR REFER. Though no human will be as accurate as a computer, and until computers take over, I would choose a BROADLY EDUCATED HUMAN to give me the best chance. So, even though an orthopod may not think often about a “peaked… Read more »
Facts are facts Robert. I remain in general agreement supportive of many if not most of your stated positions. With that said, I do believe the “gold standard M.D. degree” is not pure gold. It is an alloy. The regulatory burden imposed on podiatrists regarding misuse, fraud, abuse , are driven by the actions of M.D.’s. Suspicions or thoughts to the contrary, there are no facts which you can sight to suggest podiatrists are more prone to fraud and abuse. Yes, the Barry Block /APMA level podiatrist is likely a pathetic lot. However, these people do nothing of consequence. They… Read more »
Amen. Ask Eddy or Malibu about PBMs. They’re run by degree only MD (businessman) scum bags for pure profit. Hucksters and hustlers galore. Profiteers. Yet imbeciles worshiping MDs, and DMPs are bad guys. Simpleton thoughts, prolly from the nawing of why they couldn’t get into MD school. That’s a god send brother.
Who the fuck would do doctoring when it’s a business for profiteering. Fact.
Excellent analysis thank you!
Well that’s quite an indictment of the MEDICAL PROFESSION. Maybe we should just get rid of DOCTORS. Because podiatrist have CLEVERLY MORPHED and chameleon’d into “doctors” when physician fraud is calculated wtf’s may very well be included. Statistics state there’s about 10% fraud in medicine. % of wtf fraud in such a small profession would be a worthwhile study vs. % fraud in the million or so MD’s. I unquestionable agree that the wtf profession HONORS FRAUDSTERS. Podiatry flies somewhat under the radar because it’s such a small field. Unnecessary cataract operations? It’s kinda hard to hide a cataract. I’ve… Read more »
Medicine is business. Business is medicine. PBMs, ACOs, HMOs, PPOs, R2D2s, AMA, pubically traded shit houses, “non profits”, trade/lobbying groups, etc,. If you can’t or won’t understand that Robert than don’t know what else to say other than enjoy MD worship/pedestal placement and cataract anecdotes and MD lust. Likely bc you wish you got into MD school. So it naws at you day and night. Get ur MD rose colored cataract glasses off. They’re POS too.
Btw, agree, DPMs are mainly con artists —-/in lock step with MDs.
Great insight thx
The ‘MEN BEHIND THE CURTAIN’ (the cult of controllers of the Political Pod Machine) are making their secret phone calls to Barry Block. He’s the podiatric puppet of propaganda and today he’s been ordered to HAWK the APMA. Block is trotting out the “guilt trip” and is even calling podiatrists PHYSICIANS. Butter up the suckers and get at their wallet. Of course its the same old talking points. Podiatry needs the APMA to protect it from the mean old M.D.’s. See, podiatry can’t stand alone. It needs PROFESSIONAL glib con men to TELL THE WORLD HOW MUCH THEY NEED NON… Read more »
There is not a day that one cannot google the indictment, arrest, or conviction of an M.D. In point of clarification, such offenses are multiple and daily. Unlike podiatrists, who go to jail for charging Medicare for toenail removals when not appropriate, M.D.’s are sighted for unnecessary oncological procedures, wrongful deaths, and are singularly responsible for the opioid crisis running so called pill mills. It is the M.D.’s that have continued unnecessary total joint replacements, cataract and other ophthalmology surgeries, cardiac and peripheral vascular interventions, which when complicated may result in blindness, amputation, stroke, and death. It is the M.D.’s… Read more »
Exactamente Hallyxguy. Many MDs and their ilk are simply businessmen. These hustlers pos own insurance companies and health “care” orgs that are bought and sold for billions. Businessmen MDs profiteering off of the sick and the infirm right Eddy! Are you proud of that mr md? PBMs? You proud of that Eddy? Milk mediscam real good, bilk private insurance. According to Eddy we should not F with someone’s pockets even though mediscam taxes are our money! Enough of his horseshit back slapping talking down to DPMs when. MDs are POS too. We have every right to know what’s in those… Read more »
Hallux guy brilliant analysis thank you!
Thx hallux puts Podiatry in perceptive
“…a podiatrist can earn as much money after 35 years as an orthopedic surgeon makes in one year.” Don’t know what that means, 35 years—poof, gone, and gone for good. You’re not an orthopedic surgeon, and society just so happens—in the US—to favor rewarding folks who don’t/didn’t/wouldn’t settle for a pull up the hassock and watch TV…I’m talking dues. If you don’t pay em when you’re a freshling, you get what you get, and who the F needs to bean count what’s in other people’s pockets? Call Gladys Kravits? Hold up a mirror and ask that image how come you… Read more »
Disagree Eddy. You definitely should bean count what’s in others pockets when you’ve been paying their ill earned salary through dues and fees. In fact, many should get jail time. Or CEOs , CFOs, etc, “care” organizations that are “reimbursed” by mediscam. Simply an insurance hustle coding racket shell game profiteering off of YOUR health.
> There is not a day that one cannot google the indictment, arrest, or conviction of an MD. In point of clarification, such offenses are multiple and daily. Unlike podiatrists, who go to jail for charging Medicare for toenail removals when not appropriate, M.D.’s are sighted for unnecessary oncological procedures, wrongful deaths, and are singularly responsible for the opioid crisis running so called pill mills. It is the M.D.’s that have continued unnecessary total joint replacements, cataract and other ophthalmology surgeries, cardiac and peripheral vascular interventions, which when complicated may result in blindness, amputation, stroke, and death. It is the… Read more »
Dow bow wow yippy yo yippy yah, gotta a blinking rotating foot sign, with we cater to cowards, come on in, sit in that shitty strip mall office, sign this, sign that, the 24yo $13.00 hour Latina will welcome ya back. Meet the doc, meet the DP the WTF. Sell this, sell that, sign this, sign that. Sell that dream, buy that cream. Make mommy proud, say it out loud!!! Dow bow wow yippy yo yippy yah. Gotta a sweet porktice for sale, letsa make a dealio. The appraiser shyster told me in the 1000pg bullshit report that you could… Read more »
When you had bad Mexican, the stuff in the toilet was called podiatry
Is truth too much to bear?
Wonderful! And there’s always room for more farriers…
…and who can live without equine foot care?
Who can live podiatry ? That question not good. Bad day now if you podiatry now