Podiatrist daily routine?

I think you answered your own question. You'll find out when you shadow. Good luck. When I shadowed, I knew after the 1st day that Podiatry was for me. I hope you have a similar experience.

I agree that shadowing is the best way to learn. You

Podiatry is already a specialty, so most practicing DPMs will take on a lot of nail and foot care, heel and foot pain, padding and orthotics, and then supplement that with a bit of surgery from time to time when conventional therapy fails to sufficiently help their patients' ailments. Those are the most common complaints and what ultimately pays the bills.

A DPM's daily practice depends largely on what their residency training focused on, what kind of cases they are most experienced with, and just what kind of patients are in their area and in need of help, though. If you go to a big city where there are enough patients that sub-specialties within podiatry are viable, you may see some well trained DPMs who do a majority of their work in one arena: surgical podiatry, diabetic wound care and limb salvage, gait analysis and foot orthoses, podiatric radiology, etc.