Its interesting how some people read this negatively. I read this as a positive spin. Imagine that there are almost no podiatrists and those straight forward trivial, lobster things we crush in the office are just paid at the kind of rates where you put the money in your pocket and go home.
Yeah, I read it same.
There absolutely
was a time when podiatry was no residency, corns and calluses, pads and injects, nails and warts, stretching shoes and rubbing on balms, doing 100% outpatient (or ECF) work. Most DPMs wouldn't - and couldn't - be on hospital staff or do surgery. That was not as long ago as ppl think! Sure, they were technically "doctors" by virtue of doctorate degree and doing healthcare, but basically paid like nurses.
That was before any of us were alive, but that chiropody lasted awhile.. still going that way in some countries.
...I think the point is just be careful what you wish for. It's just like those podiatrists now who go into the VA or small rural hospital that sends output f/u heel pain or ingrowns...and tell ER and hospitalists to call them on all injuries or foot infection. Ok, they're "evolving," but some DPMs wanted that 8-4 forefoot surgery or non-op gig... that new guy just changed forever.
I say it all the time, but we missed a golden opportunity to have general and surgical DPMs. If we had, the non-op wouldn't be failing boards and in tons of debt, and the surgical would have much better training, income, volume, jobs than they do.
