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I agree you are either a foot and ankle surgeon or you or not. Those who were unfortunate not to have received training to handle the entire foot and ankle should not be boarded. The separation occurred because many could not obtain enough rearfoot/ankle cases to sit for the boards. So when they complained and called those who did have the training elitists the trained of our profession caved and created the foot vs foot/ankle boards. It was to help those with less training.
Then the less trained couldn't pass the test or still could not get enough cases so then the boards were unfair.
Bottomline, the whiners and untrained are the ones who are killing the profession. They fail and it's everyones fault but their own. Then 10 or less dominate this site and tell everyone how bad we are. They never offer solutions, do not belong to any organizations( they all have rationalizations for this as well), never accept any responsibilty for their failure, and want parity with those who did receive the training.
I used to feel for the less fortunate of the profession. However this is becoming harder and harder to do. The trained ethical DPM kicked down all of the doors so the untrained could follow. Now that they are beside us they want us gone so we do not embarass them. They claim they are the same as the trained. A DPM is a DPM is their statement to hospital, patients, and MDs. They want to dumb down the profession with standard residencies that do not offer full scope surgical training. They want to confuse the public with a podiatry certification, so a patient becomes even more confused as to who they should see for a specific problem. Like it or not it is you who are killing the profession. If the profession is inherently the problem, no one would make it. It isn't the profession who has failed it is you! That's the truth, like it or not. Respond anyway you want.
My opinion