Podiatry is Alive and Well!!by (no login)I've noticed many posts in this forum are from students inquiring about the future of podiatry and some practitioners who are disgruntled and depressed about their profession as well as some great general input from podiatrists willing to exemplify the positive. All I can say is, the old addage, "one spoiled apple can spoil the bunch" certainly holds true for any profession. Don’t let these few forum Trolls, as I call them, spoil your decision to make podiatry your life’s profession! I am here to say, that podiatry is ALIVE AND WELL and one of the greatest professions you can enter. There will never be a shortage of patients with foot pain and there will always be a place for the podiatrist (unlike the negative comments posted by the nay-sayers). There will never be an MD only profession as long as specialists such as podiatrists stay at the forefront when treating foot and ankle problems. Podiatry is like any business, you will get out of it what you put into it. Of course, it does help to have communications skills and a genuine sense of well-being to ‘do the right thing’. And please, to all you new ‘would be podiatrists’, students, residents and new practitioners . . . podiatry is more than just doing surgery. I found out very early on, that the more conservative your approach to patients, the more successful you will become. You will never have a shortage of patients by putting down the knife and picking up your diagnostic and conservative treatment skills. Many patients coming to you are looking for a different alternative than what the orthopedist, general doc and other allied health professionals offer them. YOU ARE THE SPECIALIST! You are not the general orthopedist and general doctor. We know that just with the passage of managed care, that the best treatment is the treatment that comes from the specialty groups. Don't kid yourself; Managed care is a dismal failure when it comes to treating specialty problems like the foot. So for you would be podiatrists who are looking for the right answers and you just ‘don’t know’ if podiatry is the right profession for you? I can tell you that podiatry is very much alive and well. Remember; don’t let the Forum Trolls get you down. If students or ‘would be’ podiatrists have and questions and would like to discuss this great profession, you can visit our site at http://www.podassociates.net or just contact me at Al@Kline.net Al Kline DPM 3130 South Alameda Corpus Christi, Texas 78404 361-884-3984 from IP address 24.175.161.120 Goto Forum Home |
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