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When they aren’t stealing from their residents…
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When they aren’t stealing from their residents…
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Turgos?..... sigh.... knuckles are out of our scope anyway
Foot and ankle surgery specialist? Does everyone hate the word podiatrist now?
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It's just the one usual out of touch guy. Followed by a plug for the direct care nonsense.
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Dear Dinosaurs,
Podiatry school costs right about $20,000 more per year in tuition than it did when I went 12 years ago.
I had a part time job that paid $25/hour. I worked the summer of my first year and worked when I could during the 1st/2nd year. It had no effect on my finances and it would have even less effect now. My wife worked and that was a financial boon because we only borrowed tuition, not cost of living. I should have spent that time reading and watching surgical videos.
The highest yield activity a student can engage in is preparing themself for residency and to be a successful future surgeon. There is always something you can be reading.
If you are a successful podiatrist there is no job or money you can work during school that will compare to the amount of money you can make practicing successfully down the road. The paycheck I received today was worth months of 40 hour weeks paid at my pre-podiatry school job.
Podiatry school costs right about $20,000 more per year in tuition than it did when I went 12 years ago.
I had a part time job that paid $25/hour. I worked the summer of my first year and worked when I could during the 1st/2nd year. It had no effect on my finances and it would have even less effect now. My wife worked and that was a financial boon because we only borrowed tuition, not cost of living. I should have spent that time reading and watching surgical videos.
The highest yield activity a student can engage in is preparing themself for residency and to be a successful future surgeon. There is always something you can be reading.
If you are a successful podiatrist there is no job or money you can work during school that will compare to the amount of money you can make practicing successfully down the road. The paycheck I received today was worth months of 40 hour weeks paid at my pre-podiatry school job.
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She's got a million followers online and not board certified. Probably has minimal real life surgical experience at this point in her career after residency. She's the perfect person to ask an opinion on
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Yet it looks like she works as an associate in just another mundane dpm group... May be different if she was triple board cert and fellowship trained
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Her job is to be pretty and talk about anything that could be true. She could make a video about the importance of lacing your shoes left-over-right and not right-over-left and it wouldn't matter. When you're a content creator, you have to produce content. Quantity is more important than quality. Besides she probably takes a biopsy of the occasional mole in the OR and that's enough to give her surgeon cred.
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Im all for podiatry content creators/social media people to be honest. They’re the ones who push the fact we aren’t just nail clippers to the general community.
That TLC show My Feet Hate Me or whatever it’s called I have patients talk to me about it all the time. That’s the only national TV show to ever tell the public “oh podiatrists are doctors too”
That TLC show My Feet Hate Me or whatever it’s called I have patients talk to me about it all the time. That’s the only national TV show to ever tell the public “oh podiatrists are doctors too”
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This should be required watching.
It's concerning that pre-pods are now welcomed to take out loans and start school without shadowing podiatrist or visiting the school in person or without MCAT.
...but at least make them watch that 20min episode???
It'd explain a lot and probably prevent at least a few of the "medical student" (despite bombing MCAT) and the DPM-yet-refuse-to-say-podiatry inferiority complexes.
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I think it’s poor taste to criticize her. She’s just doing what she likes, try’s to be informative to general public. TikTok is for short attention span, simple facts which is why it’s so addictive to people. She also makes money, so good for her, capitalizing on her brand.
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She's gonna get made fun of by the very nature of what she does. No way around it.
The same goes for Pimple Popper or Dr Mike or whoever. They make themselves heroes.. and it also makes them joke material.
As long as it gets their name out there, no publicity is bad publicity. It's just about monetizing clicks or likes or views.
The MSG I worked with years ago had an associate doc who was always telling me all about 'Toe Bro,' and I said, "that's dumb, people won't go for that." But hey... it caught on pretty big when COVID hit; people were glued to YouTube and Netflix - and have been ever since. He was the first real famous podiatry social media channel. That dude is much lower trained than most of us (he's Auz or Canadian or something chiropodist) and he probably makes more income for posting callus debride vids while we see ER patients and do ankle ORIF or flatfoot recons. It's not what I'd want to do personally, but people dig it. The Feet are Killing Me hit it big soon after that too; many patients and staff have asked me if I watch it (hell no). Regardless, it is here to stay: social media docs and their content creation (well, except for that plastic surgery lady who lost her license?).
That said, people trying to be a celeb will get what they get. I'd just never feel sorry for someone who asks and lobbies and grandstands for attention if some of the attention they receive is not 100% praise and encouragement.
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George Wallace once wrote in an ACFAS mailer that the key to happiness as a podiatrist is to not take yourself too seriously. And when you think about it, it is a pretty funny life choice to specialize in this overlooked region of human anatomy, and even funnier when you're a patient with a foot problem who then needs to see that specialist.
So we all have to walk that line between wanting to be regarded seriously but not that seriously. And we all draw the line differently. I would never want to be thought of as "The Toe Bro" but maybe that's how my pts think of me already
So we all have to walk that line between wanting to be regarded seriously but not that seriously. And we all draw the line differently. I would never want to be thought of as "The Toe Bro" but maybe that's how my pts think of me already
