Amen-Caveat Podiatryby jun (no login)Amen- THis is entirely correct, as a PSR-24 and RPR trainined pod, I truly agree, podiatry will NEVER be a mainstream specialty. The foot/ankle orthopods can do the bones, the derm do the fungal nails, and the vasc. sx does the PVD, and the RNs, and FPS can clips and debride. The DPM is a very restricted degree as eloquently pointed out in the previous post. As the naive 20 somethings with no real foresight who are relying on t he APMA, teachers and other do-nothings to tell them that pod. is good, great and wonderfull as they cash their student loan checks with no repayment programs going into 2006. The pod. orgs. rely on factually incorrect and outdated info. to get students who are naive, ignorant, and lack business acumen to sign their lives in student loans with a rather dubious quasi-medical degree. Stay out of podiatrics--and go to a legitmate medical career--MD/DO, DDS, DVM--you will be infinietely better off- No profession is perfect,--but for 150K in students loans, time, effort etc... one should not be struggling so hard for so little. from IP address 134.174.248.70 Goto Forum Home |
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