|
|
|
|
|
PMNews
Browse PMNews Issues
Previous Issue | Next Issue
| PM News | |
The Voice of Podiatrists
Serving Over 17,246 Subscribers Daily
January 27, 2016 #5,587  Publisher-Barry Block, DPM, JD
A partner of Podiatry Management http://www.podiatrym.com
E-mail us by hitting the reply key.
COPYRIGHT 2016- No part of PM News can be reproduced without the
written permission of Barry Block
|
|
| BREAKING NEWS | |
New Podiatric Medical School to Offer DPM-MD/DPM-PA Degrees
An organizational meeting was held in Chicago on January 23, 2016 regarding the opening of a new podiatric medical college. The meeting was hosted and led by Sev Hrywnak, DPM, MD. In attendance were state senators and representatives, attorneys, members of local hospitals and national medical societies, along with medical education groups and former IPMA presidents. “It’s time to take the next logical step in granting a DPM-MD degree or a DPM-PA degree to allow podiatric physicians full licensure,” stated Dr. Hrywnak, who spearheaded the establishment of the new college. “We cannot move forward in the new healthcare era as podiatrists with a limited license to practice.”
 |
|
Dr. Sev Hrywnak |
“To be a part of the integrated healthcare team, podiatry needs full licensure either through an MD Degree or PA Degree,” stated Dr. Stan Blondek, Medical Director of the Physician Assistant Program at Mary Wood University and Chair of Pediatrics and Neonatology. "The team that Dr. Hrywnak has assembled has all the necessities to accomplish this task, including willing colleges in Illinois, political support, academic support and financial support." The new college will have a curriculum designed for entry into the modern healthcare era and will include basic biomedical science lecture through digital media, independent study, and clinical exposure from day one. Rotations will include medicine, surgery, pediatrics, ob-gyn, psychiatry, and emergency medicine. Students will be prepared to take USMLE step 1 and step 2. “All our graduates will be guaranteed a residency due to the relationships we have established with many hospitals in Chicago and the East Coast,” added Hrywnak.
|
|
|
| PM NEWS QUICK POLL |
Quick Poll
|
|
Do you use diagnostic ultrasound in your practice? |
 |
|
|
| AT THE COLLEGES | |
KSUCPM Celebrates 100th Anniversary
Kent State University’s College of Podiatric Medicine is celebrating its 100th anniversary throughout 2016. It is one of nine accredited podiatry colleges in the United States and is a four-year, graduate-level medical college.
 |
|
Dr. Allan M. Boike |
Since it was founded in 1916, the college has graduated more than 6,780 podiatrists. “It is astounding to view the evolution of the profession beginning with only 14 students — to having more than 100 graduates each year,” Dean Allan Boike, DPM said in a prepared statement. “From its humble, yet noble beginnings, to becoming a leader in foot and ankle healthcare, the college has maintained one goal: to produce the finest providers of foot and ankle care in the world.”
Source: Akron Beacon Journal [1/24/16] via Dr. Richard Hofacker
|
|
| INTERNATIONAL PODIATRISTS IN THE NEWS | |
Canadian Podiatrist Questions Online Rating Website RateMDs
A Winnipeg podiatrist is warning the public that physicians can pay to manage information on RateMDs, a website that allows patients to review and rate physicians anonymously. Last month, a sales consultant approached Dr. Martin Colledge from the Foot and Ankle Clinic about RateMDs' promoted plans.
 |
|
Dr. Martin Colledge |
Colledge was offered three different plans — free, promoted for $179 U.S. per month and promoted plus for $359 U.S. per month. Each plan came with its own features, such as hiding up to three ratings deemed to be suspicious, removing competitors' banners from a physician's profile and getting a physician's banner on other profiles, Colledge said. "This company gathers and then controls the information, and the way they make money for it is by charging people the privilege of then manipulating that information, presumably to their advantage, because it's a marketing ploy," said Colledge.
Source: CBC News [1/25/16]
|
|
| HEALTHCARE NEWS | |
Scientists Examine Use Of Bacteriophages to Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Bacteriophages, little-used for decades in the U.S. and much of Europe, are gaining new attention because of resistance to antibiotics. Doctors in the U.S. and much of Europe stopped using phages to fight bacteria when penicillin and other antibiotics were introduced in the 1940s. Now, though, Western scientists are turning back to this Stalin-era cure to help curb the dramatic growth of bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
That resistance has become one of the biggest healthcare crises of our time, and public-health experts are desperate for new bacteria-fighting weapons, even old ones like phages. “We are at risk of losing the race here,” says Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “This has the potential to undermine much of modern medicine.”
Source: Gautam Naik, Wall Street Journal [1/22/16]
|
|
| E-HEALTH NEWS | |
How to Increase Patient Access to Health Data
There’s a debate raging in healthcare about whether patients should have control over their own health data. It’s the kind of transformational discussion upon which the future of medicine depends.In a new perspective article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Mandl and Kohane make four recommendations to foster the creation of what they envision as a patient-driven health information economy:
-
Formalization of strong incentives from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and private insurers for healthcare organizations to provide data to patients.
-
Development, backed by federal healthcare IT policy and demand from purchasers of health systems, of uniform, standard public application programming interfaces (APIs) to catalyze the development of an ecosystem of health data apps for providers and patients.
-
Creation of tools by which patients can set permissions and consents for who can access their health data and for what purposes.
-
Adoption of rigorous authentication frameworks akin to those in the e-commerce industry to provide data security and accountability.
Source: Greg Slabodkin, Health Data Management [1/22/16]
|
|
| QUERIES (CLINICAL) | |
Query: Best Type of Osteotomy on the Proximal Phalanx?
This is a 30 y/o healthy female who has longstanding bilateral 1st/5th MPJ pain and wants a bunion correction of both symptomatic joints involved. She is quite active and her job requires working on her feet 8-10 hours a day. She understands the disability and recovery involved in a bunion correction. After exhausting non-surgical remedies and failure of providing symptom relief of these structural deformities, I will perform surgery on each foot in a separate operative setting.
 |
|
Pre-op X-rays |
I am concerned about the short proximal phalanx of both great toes. I am considering a double osteotomy (Akin-Austin) on both great toes and a Lapidus fusion of the left 1st met-cunieform joint due to the high IM. I will perform a 5th metatarsal osteotomy of both 5th metatarsals as well to correct the Tailor's bunion. I was considering reducing the length of the 2nd metatarsal for biomechanical reasons to accommodate for the surgical shortening of the 1st ray when the HAV correction procedure is performed on the involved foot. Should I instead try to lengthen the proximal phalanx of the great toe with an opening wedge type osteotomy on the lateral side of the phalanx using a bone graft with fixation?
|
|
| QUERIES (EMR) - PART 1 | |
Query: Meaningful Use and Direct Messaging
Not all EHRs use the Updox Network for direct messaging. Are there any exceptions to meeting meaningful use stage 2 direct messaging standard regarding direct messaging?
Daniel Chaskin, DPM, Ridgewood, NY
|
|
| QUERIES (EMR) - PART 2 | |
Query: EMR Recommendations
We are a podiatric office located in the Central Pennsylvania area and are looking for a new EMR program. We are currently using Office Ally and are experiencing too many issues to continue using it at this time. We would appreciaiate any suggestions.
Sharon
|
|
| RESPONSES/COMMENTS (NON-CLINICAL) - PART 1 | |
RE: To Strike or Not to Strike?
From: Marc B. Klein, DPM
After seeing the most recent poll about whether physicians should strike or not, it hit a nerve about what I have been thinking about for quite a few years now. The insurance companies have basically taken over the entire direction and management of medical practice.
Our state and national associations, and I don't only mean podiatric but the AMA also, have basically ignored this trend. Every time I would bring this subject up to "the powers that be”, they would say that it's collusion and it's against the law and you can be put in jail for that.
The APMA does a tremendous job in protecting our specialty when dealing with insurance companies regarding being a part of various health programs, but...
Editor's note: Dr. Klein's extended-length letter can be read here.
|
|
| RESPONSES/COMMENTS (NON-CLINICAL) - PART 2 | |
From: Alireza Khosroabadi, DPM
I disagree with Dr. Dan Klein. I think if you think that you need an MD or DO after your name to get respect or become successful, then that is what you believe in and that is what you will get. I can only talk about my own success. I have heard all of that while in residency and fellowship. It was very disappointing to hear that from a lot of attendings (not all) but fortunately, I decided not to listen to the chatter.
I have been in practice for eight years and have been extremely successful. I turned one office to two and am building my third location, plus my own surgery center. I have been invited to The Doctors TV Show five times, and they have never asked me or even mentioned why I have a DPM after my name. They even...
Editor's note: Dr. Khosroabadi's extended-length letter can be read here.
|
|
| RESPONSES/COMMENTS (YOU CAN'T MAKE THESE THINGS UP) | |
From: George Jacobson, DPM
I tell patients that pointed shoes were designed in the Middle Ages as torture devices. Patients usually get the point that they are creating their own torture.
George Jacobson, DPM, Hollywood, FL
|
MEETING NOTICES
|
|
|
| YOU CAN'T MAKE THESE THINGS UP | |
RE: Outrageous Shoe of the Day
 |
|
Here's what happens when you step in tar, and then step in blue paint. |
Source: Prospekt via Virtual Shoe Museum
|
|
|
|
NEED CME CREDITS FAST?
PODIATRY MANAGEMENT'S AFFORDABLE ONLINE CME
You can Earn up to 50 CPME-Approved CME Contact Hours Online
Earn 15 Contact Hours only $210
(Only $14 per credit) http://www.podiatrym.com/cme.cfm
All required credits can be taken online for AL, AK, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MI, NV, NJ, NM, ND, OH, OR, RI, SC, SD, UT, VA, WV, WI, & WY
Partial required credits can be taken online for AZ, CT, FL, GA, ID, KY, IL, IA, MO, MT, NE, NH, NY, NC, OK, PA, PR, TN, TX, VT, WA, and DC
Choose any or ALL from 30+ CME Category-1 articles posted
|
|
| CLASSIFIED ADS - PART 1- ASSOCIATE POSITIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS |
ASSOCIATE POSITION – MANHATTAN
Well-established practice on Park Avenue seeking long-term associate with good social and clinical skills. ACFAS Board Certification or Qualification with podiatric medical and surgical experience necessary. EHR and ICD-10 a must. No residents please. Please email CV and cover letter to healthyfeetny@gmail.com or fax to 212-889-6150.
ASSOCIATE POSITION – PHILADELPHIA, PA
Philadelphia podiatry practice is looking for part-time to full time podiatrist to work 2-3 days per week. Multiple clinics and recovery centers. Someone already credentialed with local insurances, if not we will work to get you on as many plans as possible. Compensation package with bonus structure. Please submit CV to smithmedicalpc@gmail.com
ASSOCIATE POSITION AVAILABLE - CALIFORNIA
Busy three office practice in Santa Cruz County, California seeking new associate. Must be BQ or BC. Full scope of patient care. Competitive salary, and health insurance. Come join us on the beautiful California coast. Please forward cover letter and CV to skyandellie@yahoo.com.
ASSOCIATE WANTED - SOUTHWEST, FL
Associate position: now or July '16: must be BC or BQ by ABFAS, ability to work independently on complex cases. Hospital rounds, ER calls, great work ethic, team players needed. Fellowship experience preferred, not mandatory. LOI, LOR from director, CV. great salary + bonus, partnership buy-in. Naples, FL klamdpm@hotmail.com
ASSOCIATE POSITION - NEW YORK CITY & QUEENS
High Income Potential. One of the fastest growing podiatry practices in New York City and Queens seeks a hard-working podiatrist who participates with HealthFirst, Fidelis, and other Medicaid plans. Preferably a Spanish-speaking podiatrist. Contact me at Podocare123@gmail.com
ASSOCIATE POSITION - UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA
Established practice seeking ethical, skilled, hard working associate in summer 2016. Must be BQ(or BC) ABFAS and 3 year residency trained. Competitive salary and benefits with bonus and early partnership opportunities. Should have strong interest in advanced wound care. Great location and community. Forward cover letter and CV to: scsoledocs@gmail.com.
POSITIONS AVAILABLE - FULL TIME/ PART TIME WISCONSIN
Opportunities to serve residents of long-term care facilities in Madison and Eau Claire areas of Wisconsin. High earning potential with competitive benefits as part of a 40 year old company for the right candidates. Contact ckestner@preferredpodiatry.com for additional information.
ASSOCIATE POSITION - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Very busy practice seeking a full-time, self-motivated and hard-working podiatry associate. Competitive salary offered. Please email CV to: podiatrists@icloud.com
FELLOWSHIP – DIABETIC FOOT & WOUND (TEXAS)
One position for a 12-month TMB-approved Diabetic Foot and Wound fellowship beginning July 1, 2016. Candidate must have completed a podiatric residency/plastic surgical residency/general surgery residency and be eligible for Texas Medical License. Training involves all aspect of diabetic foot management. Curriculum focuses on surgical limb salvage, and medical management of the complex wound patient. Interested candidates should email their CV, personal statement and 3 letters of recommendation to latonya.rosales@utsouthwestern.edu. UT Southwestern is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
PM NEWS CLASSIFIED ADS REACH OVER 16,500 DPMs AND STUDENTS
Whether you have used equipment to sell or are offering an associate position, PM News classified ads are the fastest, most-effective way of reaching over 16,500 subscribers. For details,click here or write to:bblock@prodigy.net or call (718) 897-9700 for details. For commercial or display ads contact David Kagan at (800) 284-5451.
|
| CLASSIFIED ADS PART 2 - PRACTICES FOR SALE OR WANTED, EQUIPMENT FOR SALE |
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE - PADNET SYSTEM
Padnet System for Sale: $5,500. Complete system. The computer has been erased and it’s software updated by Padnet. I will include the rolling stand as well if the purchaser wants to pay the shipping or pick it up on the west coast of Florida. Contact: venicefootclinic@comcast.net
PRACTICE TO BUY - FLORIDA
Are you looking to retire soon? experienced podiatrists looking to buy our first established practice, with great potential in the state of Florida. Open to any financing options. Your patients will be in excellent hands. Contact: sunshinefootdr@gmail.com
PRACTICE FOR SALE - BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Have you ever dreamed of owning a practice where you can see 0-50 patients daily, average 100 new patients monthly, have zero accounts receivable, gross $440K per year, live in a beautiful community with skiing, hiking, fishing and boating on your doorstep? Contact pistone@telus.net or call 250-754-4192.
PRACTICE FOR SALE – NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
Established 30 year old practice for sale or for partnership with buy-in. Fully equipped modern upscale office. All the newest technology, including laser, diagnostic ultrasound, digital x-ray, and EMR System. Fully trained experienced staff. Contact drfoot44@gmail.com
PRACTICE FOR SALE – PENNSYLVANIA
Great opportunity for a new practitioner to step into a busy group practice with one doctor retiring. Practice is well established with a good mix of RFC, rearfoot and forefoot surgery, wound care, and diabetic foot care. Full EHR implementation. Practice is in a medical office building with many specialties providing an excellent referral base. Great small town to work in and raise a family. Approx 45 minutes to Baltimore Owner willing to finance and stay during transition. Contact: papodiatry616@gmail.com
PM NEWS CLASSIFIED ADS REACH OVER 16,500 DPMs AND STUDENTS
Whether you have used equipment to sell or are offering an associate position, PM News classified ads are the fastest, most-effective way of reaching over 16,500 subscribers. For details,click here or write to:bblock@prodigy.net or call (718) 897-9700 for details. For commercial or display ads contact David Kagan at (800) 284-5451.
|
| Disclaimers |
Acceptance and publication by this newsletter of an advertisement, news story, or letter does not imply endorsement or approval by Barry Block or Kane Communications of the company, product, content or ideas expressed in this newsletter. Podiatric Medical News does not represent the views, and is a separate entity from Podiatry Management® Magazine and Podiatry Management® Online. Any information pertaining to legal matters should not be considered to be legal advice, which can only be obtained via individual consultation with an attorney. Information about Medicare billing should be confirmed with your State CAC.
THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR
ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS
PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE.
If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an
employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the
intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination,
distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly
prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please
immediately notify me and you are hereby instructed to delete all
electronic copies and destroy all printed copies.
DISCLAIMER: Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be
either timely or free of viruses.
| | Guidelines |
- To Post a message, send it to: bblock@podiatrym.com
- Notes should be original and may not be submitted to
other publications or listservs without our express written
permission.
- Notes must be in the following form:
RE: (Topic)
From: (your name, DPM)
Body of letter. Be concise. Limit to 250 words or less). Use
Spellchecker
Your name, DPM City/State
- Subscribers are reminded that they have an ethical obligation to disclose any potential conflicts of interest when commenting on any product, procedure, or service.
| |
|
Browse PMNews Issues
Previous Issue | Next Issue
|
| |
|
|
|
