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I've decided to save and start posting some of my favorite podiatry LinkedIn titles. Once I collect a few more I'll post but for now here's my new favorite:

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How can someone be a key opinion leader if you finished residency last year and haven't done enough surgeries to become board certified?

I'd like to set some rules though for this post: Absolutely no pictures of people, no names, just titles.
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I’m still waiting for the reconstructive orthoplastic lower extremity surgeon.

There has to be one out there

All the podiatrists claiming they are “fellowship trained foot and ankle surgeons” belong here too


STILL A PODIATRIST

STILL HAVE TO FILL OUT PODIATRY PRIVILEGES
 

This lovey Podiatrist even has their own website. No not a practice website, just a website to brag about all of their certifications
 

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Still a podiatrist….

Wow

STILL A PODIATRIST

Denial is a stinky cologne
 
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Sort of adjacent, as in not on LinkedIn, but I trained with a pod who walked around with an "MD" placard with his badge... not "physician" but full blown MD lol, and yes DPM placards were available at that facility.
 
Bluecollarmed said:
Sort of adjacent, as in not on LinkedIn, but I trained with a pod who walked around with an "MD" placard with his badge... not "physician" but full blown MD lol, and yes DPM placards were available at that facility.
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At the hospital where I go, people get badge tags based on credentials--MD, DO, RN, DPT, etc. There weren't any for DPM so I paid $5+s/h to get my own custom made. There's no prestige or pride in it, but it's the truth, I'll never not be what I am, so I'll hang it out for the world to see 🦞
 
I think 90% of patients don’t even realize podiatrists did not attend medical school. I always cringed when I heard classmates casually tell people they were going to medical school. It can be a pain to have to explain podiatry vs medical but you don’t hear dentists saying they went to medical school.
 
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I think 90% of patients don’t even realize podiatrists did not attend medical school. I always cringed when I heard classmates casually tell people they were going to medical school. It can be a pain to have to explain podiatry vs medical but you don’t hear dentists saying they went to medical school.
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A great way to slither out of responsibility and then also to endear yourself with others by being self-deprecating is to say hey I'm just a podiatrist... Like many things in life under promise over deliver.
 
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A great way to slither out of responsibility and then also to endear yourself with others by being self-deprecating is to say hey I'm just a podiatrist... Like many things in life under promise over deliver.
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I couldnt be a PCP.
Multiple times a day the visit is done. Walking out room "Hey doc can you look at my elbow (or whatever) I wanna know whats going on".
Nope. Bye just a DPM. I love that card. Use it all the time.
 
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At the hospital where I go, people get badge tags based on credentials--MD, DO, RN, DPT, etc. There weren't any for DPM so I paid $5+s/h to get my own custom made. There's no prestige or pride in it, but it's the truth, I'll never not be what I am, so I'll hang it out for the world to see 🦞
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I would’ve just accepted the DPT badge given to me
 
I get a chuckle every time I see an ophthalmologist put FASCRS after their name. It’s pretty unfortunate that one of the biggest societies in our field (American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery) shares an acronym with the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

I just hope each group is treating the correct brown eye.

MDs are just as bad about CV stuffing. I’ll have to dig through my old texts and find a fun one a friend sent me.
 
All these fancy titles and alphabet soup credentials are meaningless when we look at how small we are in this universe. We have other things to worry about than these silly things.
 
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This one’s a triple apparently. Said Harvard expertise was from a 1.5 day weekend course that a decent bit of our second year residents attend every year. The American College of Elective Surgery doesn’t exist per Google, so that’s a pretty cool title to give yourself.

And the original reason I heard about him was because he got busted by the Feds for
fraudulent PPP loans during COVID. Always remember to be careful who you lie to.
 
So does it actually work to pay some money to have publications deem you among "America's Best Doctors?" I can see it instilling confidence in patients who were coming to see you anyway, and yeah some people are impressionable, but would a patient who is deciding between providers be looking to make sure you're one of America's Best? Is it a lot like board certification?
 
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So does it actually work to pay some money to have publications deem you among "America's Best Doctors?" I can see it instilling confidence in patients who were coming to see you anyway, and yeah some people are impressionable, but would a patient who is deciding between providers be looking to make sure you're one of America's Best? Is it a lot like board certification?
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I actually made it into a publication for my local cities "Best Doctors Issue." I wasn't voted as a best doctor but there was an article unrelated about some work I did in the community published in it. Coincidently it looks like I was included though.
 
Adam Smasher said:
So does it actually work to pay some money to have publications deem you among "America's Best Doctors?" I can see it instilling confidence in patients who were coming to see you anyway, and yeah some people are impressionable, but would a patient who is deciding between providers be looking to make sure you're one of America's Best? Is it a lot like board certification?
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Save your money. Another doc and I had some of these made as a "surgical excellence award" fake crystal when I worked at IHS with a guy who was a real goofball. We got them to put above our desks and irk him (worked great). 🙂

Personally, I have a small pod office... have so many legit certs and plaques (ABFAS, ACFAS, residency cert, DPM diploma, etc) that I can't even display them all... outta wall space. I put some of them at home office. I have no idea where the fake one is anymore... probably lost when moving, lol.

Nobody cares about this stuff imo. Patients will trust their PCP refer... then maybe take a 1min glance at your website. Spend your money there. Office decor can be passable, but by then, it's too little too late imo.
 
Feli said:
Save your money. Another doc and I had some of these made as a "surgical excellence award" fake crystal when I worked at IHS with a guy who was a real goofball. We got them to put above our desks and irk him (worked great). 🙂

Personally, I have a small pod office... have so many legit certs and plaques (ABFAS, ACFAS, residency cert, DPM diploma, etc) that I can't even display them all... outta wall space. I put some of them at home office. I have no idea where the fake one is anymore... probably lost when moving, lol.

Nobody cares about this stuff imo. Patients will trust their PCP refer... then maybe take a 1min glance at your website. Spend your money there. Office decor can be passable, but by then, it's too little too late imo.
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Agree. The patients who come to me because they looked for the "best doctor" in the area and drove a decent amount of time are the exact patients I do not want.

I'll take the ingrown toenail/heel pain patient who thinks any podiatrist should be able to figure this out and also rode their bike here. Thanks.
 
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Being new, a lot of my patients are referrals from PCPs, people called around and found my office because no one else could take them the same day, or people who's insurances directed them to me.
 
The best patients are those who do not even know what a DPM is. Let alone any other credentials after that title. And the irony is that’s also the majority of our patients. Half of my patients don’t even know I can do surgery.


And if you want to really be truthful - a lot of these old patients in a multi doctor practice hardly know your name until your MA tells them that before you walk into the room.
 
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There’s a pod on IG classifying herself as a “functional podiatrist”

It’s so embarrassing and sad we have to invent new words in front of the P word
 
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