LinkedIn Title Peacocking

[GreenHousePub]

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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:

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.

 

[Adam Smasher]

This person serving up some alphabet soup

 

[Mr.Smile12]

LI algorithms love the KOLs. How many following that individual? Maybe they have an account on OnlyFeet.... 🙂

 

[Feli]

It ain't trickin if you got it....

 

[GreenHousePub]

Probably my all time favorite title.

The man doesn't even have a body, he's just a walking foot and ankle. 🦶

 

[Retrograde_Nail]

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

 

[PMG03470]

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

 

[GreenHousePub]

Not a single mention of podiatry anywhere in the profile, but plenty of name dropping using the words orthopedics.

Weird, I didn't think Orthopedic Residencies were only 3 years?

 

[GreenHousePub]

I’m still waiting for the reconstructive orthoplastic lower extremity surgeon.

Ask and you shall receive:

 

[Hybrocure]

Ask and you shall receive:
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Micro nerve?

 

[air bud]

Ask and you shall receive:
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There it is.

 

[dtrack22]

Micro nerve?

As opposed to a macro nerve, yes

 

[Retrograde_Nail]

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Ask and you shall receive:

Still a podiatrist….

Wow

STILL A PODIATRIST

Denial is a stinky cologne

 

[Bluecollarmed]

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.

 

[Adam Smasher]

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.

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 🦞

 

[GreenHousePub]

There's no pride in it

Only if you don't think there's pride in what you do.

 

[MicroPod]

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.

 

[air bud]

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.

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.

 

[DYK343]

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.

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.

 

[Hybrocure]

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 would’ve just accepted the DPT badge given to me

 

[eyeeye_captain]

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.

 

[MoostashPod]

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.

 

[eyeeye_captain]

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.

 

[Adam Smasher]

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?

 

[GreenHousePub]

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?

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.

 

[Feli]

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?

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.

 

[Dermato Fight Club]

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.

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.

 

[Weirdy]

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.

 

[Weirdy]

Also going to ask you guys to omit anything showing geographical location.
And please take it easy on each other.

 

[GreenHousePub]

Keeping things back on topic.

 

[GreenHousePub]

Even the dentists aren't safe from word salad

 

[Hybrocure]

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.

 

[wakaflocka88]

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

 

[Homo sapien]

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

Functional at what

 

[Adam Smasher]

it's like being a functioning alcoholic!

 

[MicroPod]

The rest of us are nonfunctional podiatrists

 

[GreenHousePub]

How many buzzwords can you cram in a title without saying the words "podiatry"

 

[Hybrocure]

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(this one has passed zero parts of ABFAS, no longer eligible... yet leads with "plastic surgery" .... "complications" ... "fellowship director" ...
profile also claims ACFAS, yet not in directory... paragraphs upon paragraph of alternate board fluff without saying podiatry or podiatrist... but does have Glasgow!!! )

...And we wonder why most MDs and hospitals question our training and don't want to pay us? No wonder. 😐

Probably makes more money than half of ABFAS cert docs tbh

 

[Feli]

Probably makes more money than half of ABFAS cert docs tbh

I would think so... but how pathetic is is to have these wound scraper and "graft" ppl who can't pass the surgical board (after doing a surgical residency) and then just sign up for some official-sounding societies and be teaching at a surgical fellowship?

We have blind leading the blind pretty often in podiatry. It's pretty lame. It makes us all look bad.

It makes me grateful for my training... but fairly scared for the Charcot, plastics, trauma etc F&A surgery patients trusting these ppl who can't pass basic tests. And they're passing those "skills" on to trainees? I used to get mad when ortho or gen surg or whoever acted like podiatrists are imbeciles, but now I just sorta go about my day and hope they notice I'm staying in my lane and not personally part of that incompetence... well, not often. 🙂

 

[Homo sapien]

I would think so... but how pathetic is is to have these wound scraper and "graft" ppl who can't pass the surgical board (after doing a surgical residency) and then just sign up for some official-sounding societies and be teaching at a surgical fellowship?

We have blind leading the blind pretty often in podiatry. It's pretty lame. It makes us all look bad.

It makes me grateful for my training... but fairly scared for the Charcot, plastics, trauma etc F&A surgery patients trusting these ppl who can't pass basic tests. And they're passing those "skills" on to trainees? I used to get mad when ortho or gen surg or whoever acted like podiatrists are imbeciles, but now I just sorta go about my day and hope they notice I'm staying in my lane and not personally part of that incompetence... well, not often. 🙂

The problem is doing a surgical residency in podiatry doesn't mean it was of good quality. Hence board failures and extraneous bull****

 

[Adam Smasher]

I had a suggested connection the other day from someone finishing fellowship posting her graduation pictures. "Fellowship trained Physician specializing in Adult Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Surgery" which is par for the course as far as this thread goes. But there's the irony, the only thing remarkable at this point is how unremarkable it is for people to inflate their Fellowship credentials.

 

[eyeeye_captain]

Once I got really busy, I considered changing my credentials on the practice website to Eyeball Mechanic trained at West BFE Community College so the disasters and crazies would go elsewhere

 

[DexterMorganSK]

Please be careful when posting about a DPM that can easily be searched on Google. Doxing is not allowed.

 

[dtrack22]

posting about a DPM that can easily be searched on Google.

The above does not equal 👇🏼

Doxing

I hope the moderators read and understand the definition of doxing before editing content that only contains publicly available information without linking it to an anonymous member of the forum…

 

[DexterMorganSK]

The above does not equal 👇🏼


I hope the moderators read and understand the definition of doxing before editing content that only contains publicly available information without linking it to an anonymous member of the forum…

We all know which DPM Feli was referring to in his post. Just because someone's information is available online does not give us the right to make fun of them here.

 

[GreenHousePub]

I still have no clue what orthoplastics is and why any of my patients would need it.

 

[Hybrocure]

I still have no clue what orthoplastics is and why any of my patients would need it.

I think it’s when you spend a fellowship learning how you can bill insane amounts of money for foot closures

 

[Sendin_Toes_2market]

I think it’s when you spend a fellowship learning how you can bill insane amounts of money for foot closures

150$ for partial amputation left open. 750$ for ortho plastic flap and bead placement 2 days later.

 

[Boba Foot]

150$ for partial amputation left open. 750$ for ortho plastic flap and bead placement 2 days later.

 

[dtrack22]

does not give us the right to make fun of them here.

That’s not “doxing”

Just say, “SDN doesn’t tolerate posting absurd public titles that may hurt their owners’ feelings”