Just coz you think it dont make it so!!

Well well, such fecund prose, but still it doesn't help. You know, denial is not a river in Egypt. How many real jobs are out there for you if you have the almighty Podeity degree, DPM? Can you get some extra bucks moonlighting in the ER? Can you get a Job as a medical director of a nursing home, neh medical director of anything, save another podiatric residency program? Can you work in public health as a consultant for say, oh the CDC ? Or how bouts as a top-tier decision maker for say Cigna?
Do tell, where are the jobs in podiatry outside of being a slave for some shabop to take advantage of? The simple fact is that a DPM is an inferior medical degree. It doesn't open any doors, best I could tell in my few years before I got out and went to do something I really enjoy, it seemed to close a lot of doors for me. I don’t know about nefarious frauds; but the podiatry schools bring an opprobrious monument to human greed, selling lies and deceit wholesale to unsuspecting naive young men and women who just want a fair shot at their dreams. Do tell where are the jobs for podiatrists that they can use the wonderful skills they've spent years and years learning and hundreds of thousands of dollars to get. Do you really think the risk reward ratio is there for the average person who enters podiatry school, and my oh my are they ever average too. The standards are really high: heartbeat, checkbook, you're in!! WE don’t really care if you can cut it, we want that money and will tell you anything to get it. Are these young and hopeful souls ever told the truth? Hey look this is really how being a podiatrist is, "there are few if any jobs for podiatrists out here. There is an occasional HMO job which are rarer than hens teeth, mostly slavery for older pods who want to take advantage of you, and if you decide that private practice isn’t for you can become a military podiatrist and be in the Medical Service Corps, uh sorry not the Medical Corps. Or maybe you can get a VA job, those are really rewarding careers cutting old veterans toenails and nasty ulcers. Oh and well, good luck transferring these skills to anything else. The fact is you will cut and grind thousands and thousands of toenails and schnide thousands and thousands of corns and callouses, and maybe do a hammertoe or two. You will do it for 50 cents on the dollar, you will fight for every nickel from patients who think you already have more money than you'll ever need and don’t want to pay you such exorbitant fees for a nail job, and insurance companies who'll give you the run around the block for three months before they send you a fraction of your bill, the rest of which you will write off. The cost of doing business will continually rise, while your reimbursement declines, and if you are lucky, you might see one or two interesting cases a week, then you better be careful coz if anything goes wrong, well that DPM don’t hold a lot of water in a jury's eyes up against those vascular and orthopaedic docs; better settle those kinda "iffy" cases while you can still cut bait. And, as for the BIG money you think you'll make, uh well you might but prolly not. And, you will definitely look forward to those Podiatry Institute meetings where the slides and lectures are about fixing pilon fractures and major rearfoot reconstructions with LOT AND LOTS of hardware, procedures you'll never do in a thousand years! But hey, they'll be at nice places and you'll be in good company with others as miserable as you will be" I don’t think so. I'll stick to my profession i entered after 5 years of podiatry, i went back to school and got a masters in golf and turf management. I have the past seven years been course advisor at a PGA Tour golf club, I earn a great salary, benefits, retirement, profit sharing, oh, and i get to have one hell of lot of fun playing golf too. Go tell the BS to some young kid. I lived it, podiatry is not, nor will ever be, the medical profession that it thinks it is. Just coz you think it, don't make it so!!! Speaking of dignity you arrogant twit, brush the toenails out of your hair before coming to the golf course, it's embarrassing for you to let others see that!!!