Why can’t podiatrists become nurse practitioners so that they can become licensed to treat the ankle in states like NYS?

Stats do not lie and stats show that 7 years for a career in a field ( Podiatry) that can be done by many other health care professions is not needed and is a train to economic disaster. We are NOT the premier foot and ankle specialists , we are just another allied health profession that takes care of the foot and sometimes ankle but limited by scope and a limited license. We self destructed ourselves with many boards and many egos driven by vendors with a national organization (APMA) that has no idea of what is going on in… Read more »

It all boils down to that famous line from W.H. Auden’s “Age of Anxiety”: “We wd rather be ruined than changed.” Bottom line: we are playing out a certain self-destructive narrative that we have been analyzing and criticizing for years now, and somehow, for most USians and other people (e.g., the Chinese. some Indians) who think life is only abt economic and technological expansion, serious change (e.g. to de-growth) is not an option. It’s over folks.

The handwriting is on the wall; it cdn’t be any clearer. It’s all over but the shouting.