If I may also add another comment regarding Feelgood's observation pertaining to the struggles of our profession which stem from our past (chiropidy). Of course, I agree with a large extent with that notion. I also believe that it is the reluctance of our profession AS A WHOLE to progress forward and conform into a medical specialty - some were more than satisfied doing what they were doing while others were more ambitious and wanted the benefit of the profession as a whole. Of course, the fact that we were a small profession to begin with (in terms of population), gaining any form of strides or achievements as a profession was even more difficult. Our story is similar in many ways to the movement of DO's and their struggles - For that I really believe that we can truly gain strides in the future with the retirement of "old schoolers" and uniformity of our training and voices.
Of course, when I say gaining strides similar to DO's - I don't mean having DPM's performing open heart surgeries but rather establishing ourselves as a fully recognized, uniform, and exclusive specialty for treating Lower extremity conditions.