Recent content by shadesofgrey

Did I miss the extensive criticism that podiatry faces outside of SDN? Have ACFAS, APMA, or the myriad of other organizations come out and identified flaws that a potential student may want to know? I view SDN as a counter to the overt positivity produced for student recruitment and social...

MD/DOs are the natural comparison because of training, tuition cost, and daily activity (patient care/medical professionals). Our entire educational model is based off the MD design with the added emphasis of LE focus. I'm really not sure why/how you would want to compare us to other careers...

As we have covered over and over again on this forum, the ROI for podiatry is questionable/poor. Yes some pods come out and do ok. Many, will eventually bring in decent money, however, a not insignificant number come out poorly trained, with few job prospects and end up in nail jail. What other...

Well I sure as hell am... The poor ROI should be prohibitive for most prospective students.

One thing I've come to appreciate is that you can talk most of your patients into or out of a surgery very easily. This is very powerful, use it smartly because if you talk them into it and there are complications they aren't happy. Every day I talk people out of surgery because they don't...

I was at a conference a few years ago and was talking to a pod that practiced in rural Alaska. It sounded like it was mainly RFC and wound care, but she said she routinely bartered her services. I distinctly remember her talking about getting paid with fresh Salmon. Not saying its necessarily...

I agree and hope that the ban is upheld. However, all I'm saying is I can imagine a scenario where a PP owner states that the associate was heavily involved in setting policies at the clinic and therefore the non-compete is enforceable.

If you only knew... I'm like god-damn Serena Williams over here.

The ban excludes people making over 151k and that are in policy-making positions. Won't apply to most pod associates, but I could see a few owners claiming that an associate was giving input into clinic decisions and trying to still enforce the ban.

I mean I understand what your saying, but is this really how the process should work? Where the hard part is not the academics but the process? Currently, the test takers have to purchase the expensive test and then the suggestion is to spend another $500(?) for the prep. Why can't ABFAS...

I have very low expectations that CPME would do anything. I offer this sad but true anecdote. One of my classmates scrambled into a New York program where his senior residents were literally making up cases for their logs. He said all they did was wounds or nails for the most part. That program...

That interest not accruing is life changing. Wish this would have been available to me, by the time I was able to afford a payment that was more than the interest, nearly 100k added in interest. Having said that, I still think pod is a poor career choice that should largely be avoided, but that...

Bold move, never thought of doing that. However, I cover one nursing home, and every 10 weeks I go to the health clinic they put us up in and see a blank death certificate. I'm always a little tempted to take one home, fill it out and send to my student loan provider. All loans are then...

I was under the impression had to be full time at a nonprofit? No?

I believe it was "we dont just trim toenails".