...does any private practice Podiatrists conceal carry? I know for some hospital based Pods yall definitly cant.
The vast majority of modern PP pods still go to the hospital on most days... or to ASC... or to wound center... or to lunch at some restaurant, post office, or the million other places you can't carry. My office is in a hospital... many PP pods are, on some or all days.
I learned way back in Miami for pod school that CCW is basically equal to frying your ammo in a hot car all day while you're at clinic or rotations... for it to also potentially get stolen if car break-in or theft happened. Not ideal... gave up on that CCW idea pretty fast. I will stick with my Leatherman.
If it were a private practice not in a hospital and a doc who seldom goes to the hospital (C&C type)... and you're paranoid... I'd say a doc office lock box is probably much more practical than CCW. You can still only do that if you're owner... and you have insurance for it... and it meets all other building/legal regs. It will still 100% creep some staff out, so there's that.
CCW is just not practical for 98% of health professionals. It's really only a thing for off-work hours or travel. On the job, even the EMTs and medics and home health peeps are constantly having to leave their arm in their bus' cab.
...I just don’t feel in danger at my clinic enough to carry ...
Yeah, if you're not dealing drugs or making enemies or picking up other guys' wives or flashing tons of gold and stacks, a podiatry office should be a pretty chill place. One would hope. You just don't see a ton of verruca and onychomycosis patients wild'n out.
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Nearly any pod office I've ever seen where there is a large % of roughneck pts or fam/visitors and it wouldn't be extreme to consider CCW are MCA hospital/resident podiatry clinics, where CCW is not allowed for multiple reasons.
The point of concealing is that nobody knows you’re carrying. ...
I get it, 100%.
...but over time, I'd say that it's basically inevitable that you print reaching for something, holster slips, shirt untucks, have to change in a locker room, have to take holster off with a passenger in car (at no-firearms destination), have to adjust and ppl pick up on what you're doing, or whatever. We can all CCW for a few days or weeks, but it's a matter of time... esp when most of us go sit-stand-sit-stand 25x-100x daily and work with mostly same ppl daily.
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