09/05/2013    

RESPONSES / COMMENTS (RESIDENCY SHORTAGE CRISIS) - PART 2A

RE: Unmatched Residency Placements Currently Stand at 80

From: Michael Metzger, DPM

I used to joke about the condition I called “frustrated real doctor syndrome" - the podiatrist who for whatever reason (and that’s a whole other discussion) just  does not feel that he or she is not a real doctor and it just kills him/her. To many, one cure seems to be increasing the post-graduate requirements required for licensure and that will do the trick. All those MDs and DOs will now see that we are just as good as they are, their equal. Parity achieved. 

We worry about what everyone else thinks rather than what is best for our graduating seniors and our future as a profession. This has nothing to do with greed as has been suggested; it is all about our own insecurities.

Michael Metzger, DPM, Houston, TX, mzmetzger@comcast.net

There are no more messages in this thread.