Getting a new job about of Residency can be a never wracking search for most Podiatrists, especially with the Podiatry job market being devastated by COVID 19. The fact is one of the main reasons that Podiatry residents search out jobs in Hospitals, or Medical Groups is due to the fact Podiatrists do not want to deal with the BS from having to work for some of these crooks that just hire Associates to exploit them. Now the good news is in the last 10-20 years a lot of this has been cleaned up. Many of the Podiatrists have retired and many of the new Podiatrists are good people not looking to screw someone.
But there are still some remnants of the old guard that prefer that their associate help pay off the child support to the receptionist they knocked up rather than making a fair deal for everyone involved. So here are the five ways Podiatrist screw New Associate hires.
1) Non Competes that are absurd like 20 miles when they have four offices. Listen, if your Podiatrist is honest what they will do with the non compete will be as follows: Listen if you want to leave my practice all you have to do is pay me like 20-30k and I get to keep your accounts receivable. Beware of Podiatrists that have large non compete clauses as they most likely will treat you poorly and then know you cannot screw them. In fact most honest Podiatrists will not even include the non compete because if there is no non compete they know the relationship has to be beneficial for both sides.
2) 30% Collections – So the Podiatrist puts in 30% Collections and then six months in you cannot find out what your collections are. You need to find out what exactly will count as your collections. Do not assume that CAM walker you are dispensing is going towards your collections. The odds are great it’s going towards the Practice collections. As an Associate you need to find out exactly what counts as your collections.
3) This isn’t so much a way as it is something to keep an eye on. How many Podiatrists work in the office, and how many patients are they seeing. A lot of offices hire a lot of Podiatrists and have them see 12-15 patients so that way when one quits that can spread the patient load around. Also, be acutely aware of Podiatrists that have had a lot of bad associates. If their last five associates have quit, the issue is probably them, not the associate.
4) Is it large base salary but then they do not cover your malpractice insurance, or CMEs, or health insurance. That stuff matters and can add up, suffice to say your 100k contract can become 50k a year really quickly
5) How do New patients get assigned? Does he have ideas to promote you and market you? When does he think you will start seeing 20 patients a day? This stuff matters a lot. Point blank, ask him about his plan. Is there already excess patients for you to see? Will there be call for you to be able to get patients from ERs to up your total quickly?
Yeah, you got screwd in foot school. Screwed in rez and board exams. Screwed in the license you have and now you have to worry about getting screwed by your colleagues (crooks). Be worried about the contract the crooks want to ensnare you in. PODIATRISTS CAN’T BE TRUSTED. PODIATRY HAS A DIRTY CORE. The desperateness derived after risking 7 years of your life, hundreds of thousands in debts, no real need for podiatry in the mainstream (except as a helper to clean and bandage dirty wounds) lends toward lechery. Lechery in terms of aggrandizing yourself undeservedly. Lechery in terms of… Read more »
Podiatry was 330 million used car salesmen (Hunter Thompson), an impish nation’ of shoplifters (Gore Vidal). Simply, hustlers and hucksters whereby, ‘I won’t blow your scam, if you won’t blow mine,’ was the putrid “value” system. Also, technician Rassles is simply playing the virtue signaling game. Most pods loved the ‘good’ con. He just wants the customers to come to the office for all those paronychias, “lacerations,” woundacologies, etc…for the buck/upsell of course. He fears the customers being self-treated bc then the money will dry up (of course, the spin is all the potential for lacerations /paronchyia fear mongering/agita tactics).… Read more »
PLUS, I suspect Shavelson supports the APMA and other groups so his money is their money. Just a big circle of money being passed around. The podiatry con is too good to change. That’s why it hasn’t changed in a half century and there is no SERIOUS talk about changing it in the near future. Bad money lovers control podiatry and some of YOU LET THEM. MONEY AND POWER ARE THE TWO PILLARS OF PODIATRY THAT MAKE PODIATRY DIRTY.
“…Money lovers control podiatry and YOU LET THEM”–Sage as always R. A giant ‘circle jerk’ of money going around to the lifers, status quo-ers, and good ol’ boys. Most pods willingly and dutifully support these corrupt POS. That says a lot abt them.
You know how get “screwed” in podupetry? You signed up and believed you were a doctor. That in it of itself, means you’re delusional and/or brainwashed. 2. Who the fck would even consider doing p stink? Well, perhaps if one is 300,000$+ in stupe dent loan debt? (E) 3. As an ass coiate, you are simply a 1099 or a dipshit lackey employee. You peacock a foot company windbreaker with some owners name on it. So proud and so stupid. Ass clown. You’re not an owner, partner, or trustee. You’re a corporate-company simp. You’ll likely lie to yourself and your… Read more »
At some point the hazy toxic fog of brainwashing will—when that thing that doesn’t go away even if you don’t believe in it—evaporate. The realization that pods eat their young, and elders (retiring, low collections, bailers) screw trainee finished Ps in more positions than the Kama Sutra. HERE is what to do (a few suggestions) considering that fog is gone and you know what you are professionally: CONNECT with an MD/DO and offer a unique service and, provided the chip is off your shoulder approach them with HUMILITY-a word lost to the pod world bred by lifers. Many MD/DOs have… Read more »
EXCELLENT EDDY, as usual. YOUR point about the CHIP ON THE SHOULDER summarizes cocky egotistical brainwashed podiatrist. Inflated egos, undeservedly. If they knew what an MD knows, compared to them, the chip would be a potato chip. You’re right that if a pod swallows humble pie
and realizes he’s a helper-handmaiden-technician, instead of a smart ass know it all, the MD’s would be receptive. Humility goes a long way in getting you in the door. Once in, SLOWLY UNFOLD YOUR WINGS and see if you can fly ALONGSIDE the MD, but never above.
Thank you R-I don’t think it’s what you know, that’s imprinted, it’s what you don’t. Butt heads who don’t know what they don’t know hurt people–But knowing how to look things up, and call call call—HUMILITY…