Dr. Ozer wrote:
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Who taught you how to do Minimal Invasive procedures? I was taught by the inventor of these procedures, Dr. Edwin Probber. Podiatry has many boards that are recognized...don't try to mislead the public into thinking the ABPS is the only one. I don't recognize it!
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I, too, attended Dr. Probber's course many years ago, and I am intimately familiar with the techniques which he and his predecessor, Dr. Morton Polikoff, advocated and with techniques which their philosophy has spawned. These techniques were originally intended for employment by podiatrists who wished to perform bone surgery but whom, in those days, were, for the most part, denied hospital privileges, and thus were limited to office-based procedures. Those days of denial of hospital privileges are long behind us, and those procedures tailored for the restricted facilities which an office environment offers should not be thought of as adequate replacement in all, or even most cases, for more advanced and complicated surgical procedures and techniques which are performed by doctors of podiatric medicine in full service facilities whether they be the hospital operating room or free standing surgi-centers. Unlike hospitals and free standing surg-icenters, which must meet specific requirements for certification, the quality of the office environment is totally dependent upon the whims of the office-based practitioner. And though some office-based facilities might meet appropriate standards, the patient is not equipped to make that sort of decision.
As far as Surgical Board recognition in Podiatric Medicine is concerned, it matters not what Board YOU personally recognize or do not recognize. The American Podiatric Medical Association which oversees standards for podiatry in this country recognizes one and only one surgical Board, and that Board is the American board of Podiatric Surgery (ABPS)
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