This doctor makes a persuasive argument that cuts to physician compensation are on the way
I worry about how this will all play out for the young and newly graduated physicians of today. It can’t be good.
This doctor makes a persuasive argument that cuts to physician compensation are on the way
I worry about how this will all play out for the young and newly graduated physicians of today. It can’t be good.
Here’s a take on the podo matrix: Advertising. Yep. The profession is marketed to innocents (sort of)—Folks who didn’t enjoy selling used cars, stereos, or Barco Loungers, and likely said to themselves: “Gosh, I could be a doctor with a DPM education and…(you know the schtick),” and a segment of the population of to-be Pod people signed on. NOW HANG ON, would ANY reasonable person buy a piece of real estate without an inspection? Would any of you hire an inspector? Would you kick the tires? Would you seek out outside sources for information (something largely discouraged by the students… Read more »
Just read Cesspool News (aka PM News). What a sorry state in the pool. A technician is trying to do a MECHANICAL, manual, minimally cerebral foot correction. However, the patient is so “restless” on the table deeper anesthesia is needed. The technician said HE HAS TO ADMIT HE DOESN’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT (what he calls) “Restless leg syndrome”. Not only doesn’t he know much about it (what do they teach in those quack schools?) HE’S NOT EVEN SURE WHERE TO REFER! Being trained with only a dp wtf technicians certificate he can’t discern if it’s a case for an MD… Read more »
Use the shit worm/cesspool analogy anytime my man.
O.M.G. ROSENSLUM, the story of the “fecal annelid” (shit worm) is absolutely PERFECT PODIATRIC PARODY. Especially about how they can’t imagine a better place to be in (greatest profession ever) and will fight to keep others away! (I can touch the back of the foot. You can’t, nah nah) Sorry Rosey, but I will have to steal that story. (with proper attribution of course) Every reader of PM News should read it, think about it, and REALIZE AND ACCEPT where they are residing and what they’re fighting for. Barry Block and his PM News keep the cesspool nice and smooth… Read more »
Robert, how many DP WTFS will really understand the shit worm analogy? I would say most if not almost all, are shit worms who can’t believe there’s better out there. Rather, they feast on “shit,” roll around in “shit,” want all the “shit” for themselves, limit “shit” for others, and smile with “shit.” Shit worms were DP WTFS.
Yes Rosenslum, the LACK OF SHAME and the LEMMING type of acceptance that podiatrist exhibit is reflected in Barry Block’s Bank Account. Sound men would have IGNORED AND LAUGHED HIM OFF THE STAGE, but not podiatrists. Oh, socks are bad, shoes pinch, pronation, equinus, fasciitis, mycosis, magic orthotics, over and over and over. No evolution. No challenge to the ORTHOTIC biomechquatic sales MYTHS. A literal profession of dead heads. I started seeing it in my first year in quack school but attributed it to a few quirky students and confused faculty. At the end of the second year, then going… Read more »
Great points Robert. Thanks for the response. Echo Eddy’s thoughts regarding hopefully students /residunces read your input. Here’s something to ponder: A buddhist (zen) monk friend said that a shit worm does not dislike a cesspool and that it would monopolize and keep everyone else off the entire cesspool if it could – because it could not imagine anywhere else to be better than its accustomed environment. Can’t think of a better analogy to podiatricks. However, the message would be lost on most DP WTFS because they’re in too deep, too dumb, and can’t see anything other than $ signs.… Read more »
Robert, did you the joke news with this headline, PODIATRISTS IN THE NEWS – PART 2–“CA Podiatrist Is a Big Fan of Wearing Socks.” Wow. Sounds very doctoral and academic. Very physician-ish and thought-provoking. LOL. What’s next, FL ob /gyn is a big fan of maxi-pads. ME hand surgeon is a big fan of mittens. NE Neurosurgeon is a big fan of baseball caps. IL proctologist is a big fan of underwear. OR dentist is a big fan of toothpaste. No wonder why podiatry was such a bad joke. Anything to help line that shyster’s pockets and maintain the corrupt… Read more »
Well, FLATUS JUST UNCOVERED THE SCAB. I suspect what I’m going to ask will go over the head of podiatrists especially Lifers. Flatus asks (after mentioning hamster wheeling) ” just exactly what are you working for”. Let’s go back a little in time, say 100 to 150 years ago. No insurance! PEOPLE PAID OR BARTERED!! DOCTORS WERE relatively poor and it was more of a ‘RELIGIOUS TYPE OF SACRIFICIAL SERVICE TO YOUR FELLOW MAN ‘ THAT MAD ONE BECOME A DOCTOR. People didn’t go into medicine for the money. I know it’s hard to believe because everyone reading this exists… Read more »
Thanks Robert. Great insight as always. A wise man once said: “Podiatry was a lame excuse for a failed dream.”
There isn’t enough energy in the sun to take podiatry to the next quantum level. It’s done, plain and simple. All except for the shouting. Which begs the question, what happens to all the money in the coffers our illustrious boards and the APMA going to go? Inquiring minds want to know.
Eloquent, thought provoking post Robert. I hope the to-be pods (all pods) READ this. Like the expression goes: “Sometimes you’ve gotta know if the juice is worth the squeeze.”
Heh Edderino—It’s prune juice. LOL!! DP WTFERY is Like a shit worm, it loves it’s environment, thinks everything’s great, and wants all the shit to themselves.
Barry Block’s buddies arguing about sterilizing TOE NAIL NIPPERS. Technicians for sure. And you expect to be paid like a DOCTOR? Toenails, skin applications, shoes of the day. ha! ha! NO IV Mg+ drips, no K+ drips, no lovenox for atrial fibrillation, No bundle branch blocks, no parathormone assays, No spinal MRI’s. No angioplasty’s for any vessels. No noth’n except minor technician stuff. Wow! some techs can touch the rear of the foot. All MD orthopod P.A.’S can do the whole body. The power of propaganda when you are “told what you want to hear” is hard to defeat. You… Read more »
I don’t know what’s worse. The DP WTF “leaders” -marketers don’t care, or that they don’t care, that they don’t care?!!
what imbecile would do medicine? long hours, shit pay, no employment rights, working through lunch, holidays, weekends, lawsuits, debts, audits, computer bullshit, metric nonsense, coding games, world’s premier tax, form, and penalty club, denials, insurance assholes, dealing with patients, workers, staff. Flug it.
Flatus. Thx comments but real doctors orthopedic surgeons making 400 k up helps with stress
Respectfully disagree Sybly. 400k gross (netting much less in an S Corp, or as a W2 or fucks sake a 1099) to perhaps die early, not watch kids grow up, being emotionally distant/abusive, working like a wage slave for what really? Perhaps, the money can help them buy stuff, but in reality, time is all ya got. And if you’re hamstering (Traum) all day long and night, what exactly are you working for? Spreadsheets? Bank statements? Who knows Sybly. Wage slavery. forced to work in abusive conditions due to DP WTF job scarcity Demonstrates the problem of podiatric job hoarding,… Read more »
Thx flatus excellent comments on state of Podiatry crises!