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10/10 for creativity! Well done!
Memes of Podiatry
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10/10 for creativity! Well done!
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Not gonna lie, I remade my account just so that I could browse the meme thread ad-free
Dad came back with his cigarettes!
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*according to SDN
#FreeDupre. Don’t blame the homie bc the numbers aren’t numbering
BeaverBlade
Quadruple board certified
The fact that we think dupre looks like that just from a meme a year ago is pretty funny too
I can’t speculate. Let’s just say I’m not 100% certain it didn’t happen.
Very true and funny video. We definitely do not need 700 new podiatrists a year. With the current job market, I honestly don’t even know if we need 100.
Old eat the young because of the job market.
Unpaid call because of the job market.
Can’t turn away bad jobs because of the job market.
Can’t turn away difficult or poorly reimbursed patients because of the job market.
Podiatrists testifying against other podiatrists to make few bucks because of the job market.
Practices hiring “fellows” instead of associates because they can get cheaper labor.
New grads accepting $120k–$150k jobs after 7 years of school and residency because there are limited alternatives and poor job market.
Terrible noncompetes because new grads have very little negotiating power and poor job market.
Doing an extra fellowship just to become competitive for jobs that used to go to residency graduates.
Taking unpaid hospital call just hoping it will generate surgical cases and referrals.
Employers knowing they can replace you because another podiatrist is looking for a job.
This is what oversupply does to a profession. It weakens everyone's bargaining power.
Meanwhile, many MD/DO specialties can choose from multiple geographic locations, receive signing bonuses and relocation packages, and make 2–3x what many podiatrists make despite the same minimum 7 years of professional school and postgraduate training.
Oh, this is data guy.
Now, now... most podiatry MSG and hospital job postings only get a hundred or two applications in the first week.
Brilliant summary
sdupre_apma
Full Member
#FreeDupre #DupreLives
Proof-of-life:
This thread and video set are the single greatest thing I have ever seen. Yes, that includes my children's births.
Thanks for the good thoughts. To those asking where I've been, I had a new opportunity toward the end of last year at a research think tank company that does work on data privacy protection. Knexus actually did a ton of work on the methods that the US Census Bureau has used to release fine-grained data without jeopardizing respondent anonymity, so... right up my alley. At the same time, I'm still been doing work for APMA on things like the compensation survey, underlying workforce estimates, therapeutic shoe efficacy/outcomes, and most-recently on some modifier-25 data questions for Advocacy.
I did push up the information on the "Starting Salary" statistic question to leadership and they're following up on it. To be unfortunately boring, I did not get fired or anything because of that. My understanding is that the materials are through a different organization and so it's not as simple as APMA saying "hey, this statement isn't accurate as written" and it being immediately fixed. That said, to my knowledge it's getting addressed.
Warmly,
Sam
Ive seen one of these proof of life photos before..
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There's something very funny to me about denying a prescription and then recommending I try 2 other medications - both of which probably require prior authorization.
Zyvox has been generic for a while now. I've been prescribing it without any PAs lately.
It's kind of like binge watching Firefly after having never watched the original run. I finally get what I've been missing out on.
BeaverBlade
Quadruple board certified
Very next tweet…
GD it, guess I’ve gotta police my sorta own. Bro is a Caribbean grad (also took 5 years so he was failing classes), who went to a crappy family medicine residency (easiest thing available after already doing the easiest path), then did a crappy and frankly worthless fellowship that never matches, then hawks any kind of meds he can. For him to try to lord over any medical professional is beyond laughable, especially with the farce that is the last tweet.
F this guy and the horse he rode in on. Maybe not the horse, I like animals.
BeaverBlade
Quadruple board certified
all his online followers are from people who are obsessed with fantasy football.
But he is an M D. Carte Blanche
Watched it when it came out... super old.
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Of course he pushes peptides, PRP, and other regenerative nonsense.
BeaverBlade
Quadruple board certified
Can peptides fix a bunion
Consult your local cash-pay concierge podiatrist.
Take a lesson from the guy in Enumclaw, WA who learned the hard way you shouldn’t do the latter…
Sounds like a PM news poll question
You guys see that PM news ad from "Pepdiatry"? It's peptides for podiatrists! I bet they got something for a bunion 🙄
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Podiatrists are pushing that stuff now too
What's wrong with regenerative medicine? Orthos do it and there are good stuff about it in lit. I wouldn't mind pushing that as a last resort before surgery.
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deleted1244881
Regenerative medicine's evidence base is slim, except for in a few podiatry-related indications. A lot of the push isn't coming from the data, it's coming from cash-pay economics and 'everyone else is doing it' logic, ortho included. Pushing expensive treatments without solid data-based outcomes isn't something I'd personally want to potentially burn a professional reputation with patients over.
Somebody from my school started out employed by a prestigious hospital you've definitely heard of. He made this mistake and I know this because the patient left him this review:
BeaverBlade
Quadruple board certified
This is like my biggest fear in the world
Don't use a tourniquet. Let it bleed. a 2" gauze square makes for excellent hemostasis.
This is a two-fer: you save on alcohol costs as you watch blood wash the phenol away AND get a second visit out of them in 4 months for repeat procedure
Bizarre comment. I know this isn't the TFP thread, and I'm certainly not about to flex about what a great toenail surgeon I am, but my recurrence is about 1/year and I do around 3 matrixectomies/day.
Lmao all in good fun. Im not about to flex your statistics BUT a 0.13% recurrence rate is incredible. Maybe ill switch to a 2x2.
Had a VA patient on a rotation in residency that several years before had a tourniquet left on after ingrown procedure and ended up losing his toe because of it. Surprised he still came to VA podiatry after that. I went back and read his history and sure enough about ten years back there were all the notes about it. Good ol’ CPRS
"mechanical"
I’ve seen wild things in my days, and I may or may not have seen someone during residency who was sent in for irritation after surgery with all 3 trocars hanging out in an eye a week and 2 postop visits later.
“Hey doc, what are those blue things I see in the mirror?”
The heart of all this toe killing talk is that people need to stop putting dressings on toes that still have a tourniquet on them.
You pour milk into cereal, never the other way around.
Simple rules for simple podiatrists.
You pour milk into cereal, never the other way around.
Simple rules for simple podiatrists.
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Or just use hemostat + phlebotomist band like above.
Kind of hard to forget leaving that on.
Kind of hard to forget leaving that on.
BeaverBlade
Quadruple board certified
i do a safety timeout before every nail avulsion. We also count every instrument including tourniquet after. I have my medical assistant double count and check every object while I write my post op note. We also do a post op debriefing. Bubba wub
ParNoMoney
Full Member
Final answer is D.
