02/27/2024    

RESPONSES/COMMENTS (CLINICAL) - PART 1 A

RE: Too Many Podiatry Schools? (Brent Rubin, DPM)

From: Robert Scott Steinberg, DPM

 

Not only are there too many schools, but the curriculum has not kept up to the standards for today's podiatric physicians and surgeons to become successful in practice. Colleges are not teaching the courses necessary for podiatrists to sit for the USMLE board exams, keeping the profession under the hallux of others. I suspect the first podiatric medicine college offering a better curriculum will get far more applicants. Let the race begin. 

 

Robert Scott Steinberg, DPM, Schaumburg, IL

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02/12/2024    

RESPONSES/COMMENTS (CLINICAL) - PART 1 A

RE: Peripheral Neuropathy Without Vibratory Deficits (Robert D Teitelbaum, DPM)

From: Lawrence Rubin, DPM, Bruce I Kaczander, DPM

 

The sensory dysfunction referred to by Dr. Teitelbaum is called "paresthesia." I have had some patients even complain of a feeling of "bugs running up and down my feet and legs" and similar sensations. Here is more information:  Paresthesia: When to pin down a cause.

 

Lawrence Rubin, DPM, Las Vegas, NV

 

In my 42 years of practice, I saw patients daily whose neuropathic symptoms were spinal in origin (stenosis, L 4-5, S-1 disc)… it can oftentimes present initially as same, without the patient having current spinal symptoms. They also may have a history of same years ago.

 

Bruce I Kaczander, DPM, Southfield, MI

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01/18/2024    

RESPONSES/COMMENTS (CLINICAL) - PART 1 A

RE: Punctate Keratotic Lesions

From: Gary S Smith, DPM, Adrienne Sabin, DPM

 

I have had people improve greatly with Spenco insoles and spraying their feet daily with underarm antiperspirant spray.

 

Gary S Smith, DPM, Bradford, PA 

 

Not knowing any other history of the patient, I suggest looking into Cowden’s syndrome as part of the differential diagnoses.

 

Adrienne Sabin, DPM, San Jose, CA