Profligate Podiatry

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A 2008 continuation of the zany antics and criminal acts of media profiled Podiatrists. This post is meant to inspire the critical skills of honorable judgement and raise awareness as to the legal consequences of illegal activities and discuss what moral alternatives the accused could have engaged in, in order to have maintained the laws and statutes that they shall be judged against.

Case #1

"The Bike Rider."

Podiatrist accused of stealing $55,000 of expensive bikes...

http://www.komotv.com/news/local/15070041.html

The moral podiatrist would not use his knowledge of biomechanics to race away with a bicycle that he did not pay for.... and certainly would not race away with $55,000 worth of bikes. Instead he would get a second job to pay for his expensive compulsion and take up a LEGAL form of thrill seeking.
 
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all podiatrists are bike stealers, like all family physicians are baby killers!
 
hey, you wanna know the best way to make money? (shhhh dont tell tom cruise)
But by taking x-rays you can steal the minerals from patients bones and sell them to psychiatrists for mad loot!

dont let anyone know i told you! our secret!

i feel like that guy on tv with a bunch of punctiuation marks on his suit.... the government has money to give you... FREEEEEEEE!!!!
 
I could post these articles alllllll night





what is the point?

i dont get it
 
I guess I take common sense for granted at my age and I assume my peers have the same grasp on the subject.

It doesn't matter what you do for a living, period.

It depends on who you are as an individual.

This may be a shocker to many people, but even Priests have been known to rape and molest little boys.

Trust individuals, not occupations.
 
I'm not a big enough nerd to lose sleep over things like post counts,
however these posts by whiskers about "profligate podiatry" get so old. this isnt a phenomena restricted to podiatry its in every single profession/occupation in the US/world

I get tired of these posts by whiskers where he repeats himself
repeats himself
repeats himself
repeats himself
repeats himself
repeats himself
repeats himself
repeats himself
repeats himself
repeats himself
repeats himself......

we get it already
 
I love whisker's posts, they make me laugh. I have no way of relating to someone who comes across so sour. The guy (if a podiatrist) comes across as a crusty old man, but the problem is I have this nagging suspicion that he is in his 30's, but didn't receive the training needed to feel confident, and he obviously doesn't have the outlook nor the brain power to market himself, so.... what's a man to do, but get on the internet and post messages that leave hints of how the profession of podiatry has ruined his life.

Other times, he suggests that he was tricked into podiatry. Once again, this shows that the man is not all that smart, but certainly entertaining! 🙂
 
Well, DDS, considering that the MD's have about 60 times as many individuals within their profession, you are about 40 articles short of the statistical average. For every podiatry incident you should have at least 60 MDs within the same time span.

There are probably 15 times as many dentists.

And finally, the nurses are about 100 times as numerous, but you only listed 2.

So for a combined profesional population of about 1.6 million you were able to generate 23 articles which is well short of the 320 needed to stack up.

Next, to remain courteous and on topic, you should have at least read the intent of the post and described what a moral physician would have done in each of your posts. If you are not sure, you are free to ask around. lol.


And to biocomp, it is such an honor to know that I have entertained someone as accomplished and as smart as you! Tell them there corn husks and them dandy m.m.m. milkin' cows that I says hi.
 
sorry, i couldve kept going, i just thought everyone might get bored of seeing the same thing over and over

believe me, there are many MANY more instances out there
 
Here's where I am coming from;

I am a member of the podiatric community. I have no right to post on the nursing DDS or MD side of this forum and start posts about ethics in their professions. [Although it is interesting that prehealth/preMCAT/ (preDAT and preGRE for some schools) nobodies can come waltzing into the pod student forums and give their 'expert opinions' about podiatry related topics.]
So, as someone interested in ethics in the profession and the role that the education process plays in the moral compass of the profession I post here.

My contention is that these rotten podiatrists do not develop their behaviors overnight. It is my opinion that these behaviors are manifest almost daily in undergrad, pod school, residency and beyond, by both their actions and probably more importantly their opinions. These folks, I am certain exhibit certain behaviors that are laughed off as 'normal' within their environment that would raise a big RED flag most anywhere else in society.

Any form of academic dishonesty, in my opinion, is one of those BIG RED FLAGS and in my opinoin any institution (in or outside of podiatry) that directly or indirectly encourages and rewards cheating is, again in my opinion, reinforcing dangerous and abnormal charater traits and is doing a great disservice to both the profession and the entire community.

The more that an individual engages in this activity, the higher risk of ending up in the news paper as an embarassment to their school, their residency program and to their peers who used to hang out with them and who, I bet, tolerated and saw the bad behaviors but never said a word... But maybe it was normal activity for them too.

My intersts are not strictly elective foot and ankle surgeries that people can and do live without.

I am also interested in Pod ethics. I mean, I am not claiming to be yet another redundant pod club president, ie president of the pod ethics club at such and such university and it is not on my CV which won't draw ooohs and awwws from many of my "looking good on paper only" peers, but I don't give a dam about all that in the first place and don't need an offical bragging title or consent from any of my less than ethical peers, to speak my mind about my interest in Podiatric Ethics.
 
biocmp said:
I love whisker's posts, they make me laugh...
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Me too.

I still don't get the taters and tots analogy, though... which one means kings and which ones are the peons? Whiskers' infinite wisdoms are hard to fully comprehend sometimes...
 
I am happy to see emotion in your post, it shows you aren't mental, just jaded. Whether or not for good reason, that's for everyone else to decide.

For a man of such intellect, it seems ironic to consider me dumb because of location, but then again, contradiction doesn't seem to be a problem in podiatry, even amongst those who act like they are bringing a light on the subject.

Fight the good fight whiskers, yer makin headwayz!
 
Tater tot anaology??? I can't explain the last one due to circumstances beyond my control, b u t.

Here's another one for you FELI since you mentioned it.

Well, you've never or practiced pota-ta-try unless you've contructed a complete foot from nothing but tater tots and used tooth picks.

Start proximal and construct your calcaneus with about 5.75 taters. You had better have a sustentaculum tali on it for the FHL tendon! Then add them tater bones.

If you are rich enough or can get more student loans, you can buy the smaller tater tots to use for the mets and phalanges. Otherwise you are screwed into breaking big ones into halves and quarters and 8ths.

The object is to reproduce a quality foot to dip in plastic resin and solidify into a virtual tatershrine to the foot and display NOT in your own practice, but instead in your competitors practice. Adding ketchup for blood and relish for pseudomonas infection can add a goulish dimension to the art work.

You can even pass out instructions to your younger patients so that they can become interested in podiatry early and purchase your practice in 30 years.

It's good for the profession and will symbolically reperesent the transition of the art deco era of podiatry of the past into a post modern form of art if everyone in the professin does it at the same time.

Getting beyond the post modern era with this form of art will take another idea that I am not willing to disclose at this time due to a lack of interest at the '1680's hair doo' level./
 
whiskers said:
Here's where I am coming from;

I am a member of the podiatric community. I have no right to post on the nursing DDS or MD side of this forum and start posts about ethics in their professions. [Although it is interesting that prehealth/preMCAT/ (preDAT and preGRE for some schools) nobodies can come waltzing into the pod student forums and give their 'expert opinions' about podiatry related topics.]
So, as someone interested in ethics in the profession and the role that the education process plays in the moral compass of the profession I post here.

My contention is that these rotten podiatrists do not develop their behaviors overnight. It is my opinion that these behaviors are manifest almost daily in undergrad, pod school, residency and beyond, by both their actions and probably more importantly their opinions. These folks, I am certain exhibit certain behaviors that are laughed off as 'normal' within their environment that would raise a big RED flag most anywhere else in society.

Any form of academic dishonesty, in my opinion, is one of those BIG RED FLAGS and in my opinoin any institution (in or outside of podiatry) that directly or indirectly encourages and rewards cheating is, again in my opinion, reinforcing dangerous and abnormal charater traits and is doing a great disservice to both the profession and the entire community.

The more that an individual engages in this activity, the higher risk of ending up in the news paper as an embarassment to their school, their residency program and to their peers who used to hang out with them and who, I bet, tolerated and saw the bad behaviors but never said a word... But maybe it was normal activity for them too.

My intersts are not strictly elective foot and ankle surgeries that people can and do live without.

I am also interested in Pod ethics. I mean, I am not claiming to be yet another redundant pod club president, ie president of the pod ethics club at such and such university and it is not on my CV which won't draw ooohs and awwws from many of my "looking good on paper only" peers, but I don't give a dam about all that in the first place and don't need an offical bragging title or consent from any of my less than ethical peers, to speak my mind about my interest in Podiatric Ethics.
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So you decided to "do something about it" by posting on an annonymous forum?? Imagine Lloyd Christmas from the movie "Dumb and Dumber" when I say..."Good thinkin!"
 
IlizaRob said:
So you decided to "do something about it" by posting on an annonymous forum?? Imagine Lloyd Christmas from the movie "Dumb and Dumber" when I say..."Good thinkin!"
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I know exactly what you mean and just imagined 'it' and 'it' was good. lol

Back to reality now,

Your quiver floweth over with arrows this day and I can not help but muse;

'how cometh thou art so wroth with thee, thy humble soothsayer this day?'
 
you know who some real crooks are

Exxon-Mobil
 
What I want to know is why people are so concerned with others behavior. In any profession from medicine to business there are those that will break the law and ignore ethics. It seems to me that as a smaller profession we should stop pointing at the bad done by others in podiatry and instead highlight the good. Other specialties rally round each other, in podiatry it often happens that we relish seeing someone fall. Maybe that is what we need to change, instead of waiting for the fall so we can attack like crows on carrion, we should build a community of support and weed out the bad apples before they fall.
 
drmeggo said:
What I want to know is why people are so concerned with others behavior. In any profession from medicine to business there are those that will break the law and ignore ethics. It seems to me that as a smaller profession we should stop pointing at the bad done by others in podiatry and instead highlight the good. Other specialties rally round each other, in podiatry it often happens that we relish seeing someone fall. Maybe that is what we need to change, instead of waiting for the fall so we can attack like crows on carrion, we should build a community of support and weed out the bad apples before they fall.
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it really only seems that one individual in these forums enjoys this
 
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