Memes of Podiatry

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What a giant pile of smelly horse manure. I can't tell what's worse. Private practice associate starting at 100K salary vs cutting toenails and relying on nursing home care to feed yourself. All this can be yours after 4 years of podiatry school, 3 years of residency and 1 year of fellowship training!
 
What a giant pile of smelly horse manure. I can't tell what's worse. Private practice associate starting at 100K salary vs cutting toenails and relying on nursing home care to feed yourself. All this can be yours after 4 years of podiatry school, 3 years of residency and 1 year of fellowship training!

For real. If you can gather 1.4 million for a nursing home practice better to just drop off the face of the map and live in a different country on the run
 
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For real. If you can gather 1.4 million for a nursing home practice better to just drop off the face of the map and live in a different country on the run
Gather the 1.4 million and buy a building with two offices. Let some business rent the other one and in the other office hide from your wife all day and pretend you didn't make a huge financial mistake.

Both are equivalent outcomes.
 
Apt comparison? Or slander?
Oh it's definitely the way it always was and is: alternate board... standards versus takes all failures of other board.

...but with the ABPM 2023 board of directors and officers' walkout, CAQ surgery rejection from basically every podiatry organization, president overdue past term, and un-elected board, this is kinda how they are sitting these days:

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I feel bad for their ABPM members paying dues and MOC and getting CAQ ads... and not even having any real elected voice right now. Lame.
 
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Seen it. Hand prep. Rongeur and 4.0 round burr.
Exactly... no need for any power for first MPJ fusion prep aside from maybe saw to remove edges and drill to fenestrate (that could all be done osteotome too).

I just use curette, rongeur, osteotome fish scale on 95% of cases. Burr is ok, but I only really use that for bigger joint fusion preps.

Reamers are ill-advised first MPJ. I never saw one fracture in residency, but I was never a fan of it. This is not a hip implant, lol.

The hallux MPJ joint is also plenty concave/convex enough to position it fine without power. It is much easier to position with plates, though. With cross screws or wires, it takes some time to get the saggital position right. The plate basically just does saggital for you (just set the transverse and frontal plane, then temp pin).
 
Lmao same exact thing crossed my mind when I saw that dude calling himself the bunion king. He looks like the wolf of Wall Street of Podiatry. As far as I know Neal is the OG King but the Bunionplasty(TM) vs Lapiplasty war may have taken its toll.

I’m just sitting here wondering why people keep fighting over a title for a surgery that gets reimbursed less and less as time goes on without fraud and unbundling.
 
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