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by Mispeller (no login)

 
Listen up you undergraduate twit, first off the errors are typographical errors and not spelling errors that you have so poignantly point out, and secondly, remind yourself why there is a site like this in the first place. I beg you to find me a website with so many disgruntled professionals in medicine, nursing or dentistry. The fact is you won’t be able too. And I'm so glad that you are so sure of yourself in your plan to do a three year residency. Just remember where these programs came from, and remind yourself that these weren’t even an option years ago. One was lucky to get a RPR, and many went into practice without any residency.
The simple fact is that there are very few really happy podiatrists out here. The vast majority make the lion’s share of their money cutting toenails and cutting corns and calluses. Now this might seem like high powered patient care to you but it doesn’t exactly require you do a lot of thinking either. You and your three year residency will be cutting toenails with the rest of them.
The ortho guys got the entire trauma LOCKED UP. The ER docs call them, not you. You will spend your days cutting nails with the occasional orthotic, unless you’re one of these that thinks everyone needs them, and a diabetic ulcer now and then and you might inject some plantar faciitis. Oh and you'll do some hammertoes and even a bunion or three. But fasten your seatbelt friend, you're going to be TOLD what you will do and won’t do by the insurance companies and what you will be paid by them as well. Podiatry as a whole in the medical mind, especially of physicians in general is seen as inferior and the training is suspect. Period. Why would anyone in thier right mind "choose" such a profesion if they had the facts. They wont tell you these things to your face, doctors don't usually do that, being mostly of polite company. But you will feel the pain my friend. You won’t get that many referrals, and the ones you do get will be for toenails. My man, the fact is podiatry isn’t really on the radar most of the time. Most docs think of you as a nail cutter, not some hotshot surgeon with something to prove. They refer the interesting stuff to their colleagues, the orthopedist. So you can get wise about spelling or whatever you want, but if you "choose" podiatry, you are more stupid than you look.

Posted on Aug 22, 2005, 12:23 PM
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Spellcheck please!Podiatrist on Aug 29, 6:29 PM
 You go nail manMispeller on Aug 30, 9:12 PM

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