12/13/2023
RESPONSES/COMMENTS (PM ARTICLES) - PART 2
From: Paul Kesselman, DPM, Mark Spier, DPM
The whole point of my last letter was to point out that we, as individuals, are partly if not totally responsible for setting our own self-worth. If we don't, who will? If we podiatrists, as Dr. Secord states, are allopathic physicians, then it’s time we start acting like ones.
Can you find me an MD or DO who will work for the kind of dollars DPMs line up and stab each other in the back to sign up for? And that is the crux of the problem. We think if we sign up for less, then we can become invaluable to the patient and carrier. In fact, that’s exactly the opposite of what happens. The carrier realizes we are so dependent on them, we become so desperate to retain their lifeline, that they pay us less and less. So who’s really responsible for this? Each of us!
Paul Kesselman, DPM, Oceanside, NY
I’m asking if the antipathetic allusion to allopathy is an anonymously announced alliterative allegory? Or is it not necessarily nuanced enough to notice now?
Mark Spier, DPM, Reisterstown, MD
RESPONSES/COMMENTS (PM ARTICLES) - PART 2
From: Paul Kesselman, DPM, Mark Spier, DPM
The whole point of my last letter was to point out that we, as individuals, are partly if not totally responsible for setting our own self-worth. If we don't, who will? If we podiatrists, as Dr. Secord states, are allopathic physicians, then it’s time we start acting like ones.
Can you find me an MD or DO who will work for the kind of dollars DPMs line up and stab each other in the back to sign up for? And that is the crux of the problem. We think if we sign up for less, then we can become invaluable to the patient and carrier. In fact, that’s exactly the opposite of what happens. The carrier realizes we are so dependent on them, we become so desperate to retain their lifeline, that they pay us less and less. So who’s really responsible for this? Each of us!
Paul Kesselman, DPM, Oceanside, NY
I’m asking if the antipathetic allusion to allopathy is an anonymously announced alliterative allegory? Or is it not necessarily nuanced enough to notice now?
Mark Spier, DPM, Reisterstown, MD