*sigh*
I received the APMSA minutes today during the lovely meeting. I feel awful, but they can take their multiple alphabetically confusing organization names and shove them so far up their asses it would take surgical intervention to remove them. Maybe if I was 22 and just came from my first degree, I'd still be naive enough to care that other physicians might not take me seriously.
I got this little gem in my inbox today and I thought I'd share:
There is a fund in the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) that is in surplus of $200,000 that MD/DO Orthopedic F & A surgeons use to suppress the practice of Podiatrists in the United States
Is there really? Please laugh. I did. I'm still smirking. Oh, such a rallying cry to young pod students everywhere to give the APMSA more money! It's mind-bogglingly stupid. An organization would spend $200,000 to suppress Podiatric Physicians? Laughable. Whoopdee doo, if they do spend that money. More power to them. Why, I say, $200,000 is a paltry sum! Donate more to stop me and my evil ways. ZOMG!OPPRESHUN! No, really, donate more. Tie up all the funds so none can go to research and other things to benefit patients. Wee! $200,000? It's probably some lone doc's salary. He's entrusted to go around once a year and mention proper foot and ankle doctors. Then, his job is done.
I guess I just can't fathom an organization doing this. I can't imagine them in the back room of a doctors lounge, rubbing their hands together and acting very Scooby Doo villain, to develop way to deal with the "Pod Problem". In some ways, I think it means more to the pods than anything. If I have to hear another pod student say, "but the DO students are treated better"--I might step on their highly discounted Asics, Birkenstocks, Ecco, or FREE Crocs shoes. Yes, the DO students get so much stuff, don't they? *sigh* What, 300 or so to a class at over $30,000 (tuition alone) a pop...what was I thinking? Most of my classmates are republican and majority means nothing to them! ;)
All this infighting is ridiculous. I thought I was here for the patient and not because I thought becoming a doctor would give me that self-esteem, replacement ego, and replacement personality I was so hoping for.
Love
Jennie
I got this little gem in my inbox today and I thought I'd share:
There is a fund in the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) that is in surplus of $200,000 that MD/DO Orthopedic F & A surgeons use to suppress the practice of Podiatrists in the United States
Is there really? Please laugh. I did. I'm still smirking. Oh, such a rallying cry to young pod students everywhere to give the APMSA more money! It's mind-bogglingly stupid. An organization would spend $200,000 to suppress Podiatric Physicians? Laughable. Whoopdee doo, if they do spend that money. More power to them. Why, I say, $200,000 is a paltry sum! Donate more to stop me and my evil ways. ZOMG!OPPRESHUN! No, really, donate more. Tie up all the funds so none can go to research and other things to benefit patients. Wee! $200,000? It's probably some lone doc's salary. He's entrusted to go around once a year and mention proper foot and ankle doctors. Then, his job is done.
I guess I just can't fathom an organization doing this. I can't imagine them in the back room of a doctors lounge, rubbing their hands together and acting very Scooby Doo villain, to develop way to deal with the "Pod Problem". In some ways, I think it means more to the pods than anything. If I have to hear another pod student say, "but the DO students are treated better"--I might step on their highly discounted Asics, Birkenstocks, Ecco, or FREE Crocs shoes. Yes, the DO students get so much stuff, don't they? *sigh* What, 300 or so to a class at over $30,000 (tuition alone) a pop...what was I thinking? Most of my classmates are republican and majority means nothing to them! ;)
All this infighting is ridiculous. I thought I was here for the patient and not because I thought becoming a doctor would give me that self-esteem, replacement ego, and replacement personality I was so hoping for.
Love
Jennie