Recent content by Adam Smasher

Here are the problems: 1) First and foremost, I know what I am and I know what I'm not, and I most certainly am not suited to debate formats. I'll either look like an ass or a doormat and either way you come across looking good. And maybe that's your plan. Does it make me a coward? Probably, I...

I think this discussion is a reflection of a broader phenomenon in American culture where there is a loss of faith in institutions we should be able to rally behind. Back in my prepod days, one thing that struck me was that few doctors were members of the American Medical Association but 80% of...

It really isn't. If you want to attend a conference and actually learn things ACFAS is not only the best, but the cheapest. I was thinking about going to Midwest Podiatry Conference last year to reconnect with old Chicago classmates--no way, not for $1k+. The problem with ACFAS for me is that...

One of the truly staggering things about podiatry when I was starting was how much money it cost me to simply show up to work. ABPM has been quiet in recent years about the CAQ, but when they first came on the scene in 2018 or 19, I found them in very poor taste, just another thing to separate...

I swear if these profs talked to prepods about pod school the same way we are ethically obligated to talk to patients about foot surgery (full disclosure of risks, realistic expectations of benefits), 2/3 of schools would vanish in a year

I know I reused this, but it's classic

What I am getting at is that when you ask the patient's permission before placing the injection, you acknowledge their agency in the decision-making surrounding their own health care and cultivate a doctor-patient relationship founded on a sense of mutual trust and partnership rather than...

Random bits and pieces: Time management is key. Know when to tell someone "I have to get going." "I have someone waiting in the next room" etc Pts will never complain to your face if you running late, but nothing pisses them off more. Always ask permission before giving an injection, pts...

From License to Kill, not considered a great Bond movie but I still liked it

At first glance, I thought all this talk about longitudinal care was about longitudinal melanonychia

It's not really a joke. That's the way news aggregators work. Don't want to be on PM News? Don't do anything newsworthy. Important exception: PM News stayed completely mum in 2018 with news about certain misconduct allegations about a certain Podiatric Dermatopathologist who took out a lot of...

to our credit, we never seem to hear about DPMs exchanging opioid Rx's for $$$ or sexual favors, that's always MD (no evidence to back this claim up either)

This illustrates the difference between waste, fraud, and abuse. Fraud: you misrepresent what you did, and did it intentionally (example: bill 11730 on every pt in the nursing home) Abuse: you accurately represent what you did, but it was medically unnecessary, and did it intentionally...

APMLE part 2 should still be taken seriously. I remember stressing about it because it does test on internal medicine topics with some depth. I don't remember specifically what's on the curriculum, it's been too long, but I remember some detailed antibiotic questions, some questions about heart...

you will all pass. go outside and play some baseball.