Is the OSC confused? by toeby (c & p from OPMA website)

Is the OSC confused?
Posted by toeby on 12/28/2004 4:06:18 PM

If you visit www.ontariochiropodist.com website you will find the following, "Ontario Society of Chiropodists' Vision Statement
To represent our members as the primary providers of comprehensive quality podiatric medical care in Ontario."

1. Since when do chiropodists provide comprehensive podiatric medical care?

2. My mother receives chiropody care which basically amounts to pedicures, so how can a chiropodist with a chiropody diploma provide comprehensive podiatric medical care?

3. Doctors provide medical care, nurses provide nursing care and chiropodists provide podiatric medical care? Is something wrong with the attitude of the OSC or are they really podiatrists "in the medical closet" ?

More 'Smoke and Mirrors' ...
Posted by OPMA_Pstavrop on 1/17/2005 10:43:14 PM

It is a shame that the OSC prefers, it appears, to continue along the path of pathetically transparent obfuscation rather than the more productive course of channeling its efforts and lobby toward pursuing an accredited didactic and clinical academic education for chiropodists in Ontario. It is also rather telling that the OSC has not actively petitioned for the long overdue need for an independent licensing examination for graduates of the Ontario chiropody commensurate with the requirement for all other regulated health care professionals educated in the province of Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.
The OSC's unwillingness to earnestly pursue,(word AND deed), remedying these two glaringly obvious failings/misgivings of the Ontario Chiropody Program speaks volumes about the calibre of leadership and its misguided notion that for chiropody, the requirements, rules and regulations that govern the practises of all the other regulated health care professions in this province, need not apply to them. Perhaps most tellingly it speaks volumes about the lack of desire to roll up their sleeves to do the hard work to gain the respect and recognition as a profession that they seek.
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Joe's Commentary
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It is rather obvious that the executive (chiropodists) of the OSC seems to be suffering from a case of severe chiropodic uni-profession denial syndrome (SCUDS). I can make such an observation because the OSC has been in existence for about 20 years and they, for one reason or another, believe they are "the primary providers of comprehensive quality podiatric medical care in Ontario" and there is no mention of podiatrists, which happen to be Ontario's only professional primary providers of comprehensive quality podiatric care in the province. The sooner that a treatment for SCUDS can be found the better. If SCUDS is caused by a virus, maybe it can be isolated at the Michener where all chiropody students would have been exposed to it. Or perhaps it is endemic in Mississauga in close proximity to where the head office of the OSC is located. Whatever the cause, physical or pyschological, I hope that an effective treatment for SCUDS can be found soon. The last thing that the D.Ch. graduates need is to have them informing all their patients that, "they are the primary providers of comprehensive quality podiatric medical care in Ontario."

If a cure isn't found and a few centuries go by, can you just imagine "Bones-DCh" on an episode of Star Trek....



Bones-DCh: "Sick Bay, what is it?"

Kirk: "Bones-DCh, I need you on the bridge, stat."

Turbo-lift doors open, Bones-DCh walks onto the bridge.

Bones-DCh: "What is it Jim?"

Kirk: "Sulu has a sore foot, I think he has an ingrown toenail."

Bones-DCh: "I'll be the judge of that Captain, I'd appreciate it if you do your job and I'll do mine.

Sulu, take off your boot, I have to examine your foot."

Sulu removes boot, Bones-DCh, examines the foot and toes.

Bones-DCh: "You're right Jim, Sulu has an ingrown toenail."

Kirk: "Can you provide him with appropriate chiropody treatment here?"

Bones-DCh: "Dammit Jim, how many times do I have to tell you... I don't provide chiropody treatment!!! I am the only primary provider of comprehensive quality podiatric medical care on this ship. And yes I can treat him while he does his work."

Kirk: "Whatever. Bones-DCh, just alleviate Sulu's problem. Opinion Mr Spock?"

Spock: "It appears that Bones-DCh has just displayed some very hostile emotions when you asked him to help Sulu, a very human response I might add. However, his comments appear to be logical and accurate considering that we are 3.34521 parsecs away from the State of Ontario where BonesD-Ch did his chiropody training prior to entering the Star Fleet Training Academy."

Kirk: "Mr. Spock I'm really not sure when to use 'chiropody' treatment or 'podiatry' treatment and I don't like aggravating --Bones-DCh, when I don't mean it. Can you explain it to me."

Spock: "Certainly, Captain. It appears that chiropody treatment is appropriate when you are physically in the State of Ontario; however, whenever you are outside of Ontario then podiatry treatment can be used."

Kirk: "Thank-you Spock. But why just the State of Ontario? I don't get it Spock."

Mr. Spock: "Nor do I Captain. Perhaps the computer's data banks will have some info on Earth's chiropody history."

Kirk: "Logical approach... Spock please continue with your investigation."

Mr. Spock: "Aye, Captain."

Mr. Spock goes over to the computer, accesses the necessary history files and reads the information. Meanwhile, Bones-DCh is performing a pna under local on Sulu while Sulu is continuing to work the helm controls.

Mr. Spock: "Captain, I'm ready to provide you with a summary report."

Kirk: "Please proceed, Mr. Spock."

Mr. Spock: "Captain, it appears that at one time on Earth all foot specialists were called chiropodists, then the profession evolved to podiatry everywhere on Earth except in the State of Ontario."

Kirk: "Oh really what happened in Ontario?"

Mr Spock: "Well, by the end of the 21st century a Pres. George W, the 4th, of the United States, accused Canada of planning to build weapons of mass annilation because they had atomic energy plants all over the country. This was before matter-antimatter technology was developed on Earth. So the USA invaded and took over Canada and then eventually, Mexico. The president then formed the United States of North America. When Pres George W, the 4th, was accused of trying to Americanize Canada and Mexico, he declared that all laws, acts and culture would be "frozen" to maintain the uniqueness of the countries that were annexed. Futhermore, it appears that only 2 documents have survived from Canada something called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms enacted by some sort of PET -I don't get that. Captain there's a lot of missing data about this PET and of course, the Chiropody Act of 1991 which was enacted by the then-Province of Ontario. Something I find fascinating is called cocoo and it has been able to maintain "Karl the Registrar" in a state of suspended animation by placing him or her in a stasis field and every decade Karl the Registrar is re-animated and s/he quickly un-does any changes to the Chiropody Act of 1991. So it appears Captain, that foot specialists throughout the known Milky Way galaxy are called podiatrists and only that in the State of Ontario are they known as chiropodists practicing chiropodic procedures."

Kirk: "Thank-you Mr Spock and thank-you Bones-DCh for your prompt attention to Sulu's foot problem and with your expert podiatry treatment you were able to help out Sulu and he didn't even have to leave his workstation."

Bones-DCh: "No, thank-you Jim for decribing my treatment accurately and I don't like saying this, but thank-you Mr Spock, for filling in some of the history of my own profession. You know, I never realized that the State of Ontario was the only place in the whole known galaxy where chiropody was still being practiced... between you and me... the next time I'm back in Ontario visiting friends and family, I'm going to find some way to deactivate the stasis field so that Karl the Rgistrar wil have to live out the rest of his/her life naturally --like the rest of us. Maybe Scotty can help me out with that."

Mr Spock: "That would be illogical Bones-DCh."

Bones-DCh: "Spock, enough with your logic, if you don't watch it I'll de-animate you!!!"

Kirk: "At ease gentlemen. Let's get to the next planet so that I can fall in love with some alien female species... I'm still looking forward to meeting a Betazoid."

Mr Spock: "Me too Captain, I hear they're especially awesome when they assume the lotus position."

Bones-DCh: "Will you men shut up you sound like a bunch of horny teenaged boys."

Kirk: "Well in some ways we are Bones-DCh. Unlike you, I do some of my best work above the ankles. Right, Spock?"

Mr Spock: "Indeed, Captain and I like do my best work above the shoulders. There's nothing more intimate than the Vulcan mind-meld."

Bones-DCh: "I've heard enough, I'm going back to Sick Bay and maybe I'll find Nurse Chappell there. At least I can beat her at 3D chess sometimes, unlike you Mr. Spock. You beat me all the time and I might as well be playing 3D chess with the computer at level 10. I'm out of here."

Turbo-lift doors open, Bones-DCh walks into the turbo-lift, the doors shut.

Fade to black...