Let’s be perfectly honest about this. Look at the big mouth people who have the most to say about killing off the surgical boards and having everyone qualified under this so-called podiatric medical boards. So you have Alan Sherman, you have Jeffrey Robbins, and you have the idiot, Jarod Shapiro, from the practice perfect world. We’ve also heard from people who are trying to create separate certification in wound care such as Warren Joseph. So here is my question for all of these people who have the most to say. What do you know about private practice? None of you have ever been accomplished in any type of significant surgery. This doesn’t make you better or worse than anyone. But the fact is none of you have established any credentials whatsoever in the world of surgery. Worse than that, you have either not ever been in actual private practice or were in private practice and failed miserably. You are individuals who make your money sucking off of the world of foot doctors by being so-called consultants and lecturers. You are not actually treating patients in a real world private practice situation. In any event, it is disheartening to hear people who do the least and yet think they should say the most about our board certification process. The fact is that people graduating today’s programs are surgeons. They are surgically trained. And what exactly is the medical board? You’re not practicing medicine. You are and were only practicing chiropody. You are trimming nails and taking care of skin and nail problems. You are treating heel pain. You were giving some injections. Exactly what medicine are you practicing? Do you believe that picking at ulcers is practicing medicine? You are people that, quite frankly, the new generation has no respect for because you actually do nothing but suck money off of them and try to make rules to force them to somehow empower and enrich you. Frankly you are the last people we want to hear from. You know nothing about real world podiatry. You are completely out of touch with the education of today’s residents unless you count the party that Presents throws in order to suck money out of corporations and pretend that somehow they are truly leaders in education. Maybe you should change your name to Pretends rather than Presents. At least with the surgery boards you are ensuring that people are qualified to perform advanced reconstructive procedures and treat patients with significant deformity, trauma, and disease. What exactly are you treating when you test for the medical board? That swollen big toe might be gout ? That the yellow toenail might not be a fungus? That you need to take x-rays on every fat person who’s heel is painful to rule out an occult tumor? What exactly are you testing for? You are not practicing medicine, you are practicing chiropody. Biomechanics? Exactly what theory are you practicing? You have half a dozen or more wack jobs running around lecturing on their own theories of biomechanics, none of which have ever been proven or researched. Give me a break. Medicine? Why not just call it what it is. Chiropody. You are the same group of morons who are calling for separate certification in diabetic foot care. So obviously that is not part of medicine. Differential diagnosis of warts? Why not just go ahead and take the same test you have to take in order to be a pedicurist. After all, that is all most of you actually were if you ever practiced at all.