Dr. S. Arbes wrote:
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Gentlemen:
I don't recall how I found this forum, but I thought it was a rather good idea to have a place for patients to ask questions and, perhaps, receive some "free" professional advice.
I still think it's a good idea.
I do not think this is the place for us to be debating this "dirty laundry" issue.
Dr. S. Arbes
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I believe that you have correctly framed the MIS issue as the "dirty laundry" of podiatry, and that's all the more reason to bring this issue before the patient public who has traditionally had a history of general trust in those of the medical professions. As with all healing professions there are professionals who base their patient care on proven science, and there are salesmen who, for propietary gain, attempt to convince the unsuspecting and the uninformed that something that is too good to be true, indeed IS. This is never the case, no matter how slick might be the sales pitch. One of the most-employed techniques in the "selling" of forms of alternative medicine and alternative procedures is referencing what appears to be basic logic, which, though it might seem to the non-scientist be right on the mark, simply rarely applies to medicne or science in general. To wit . . The bowel-cleansing scam promoted many years ago by Dr. Kellogg and which to some degree is still promulgated today. Add to this the "cleansing" of the blood products, and many other scams which may sound logically helpful, but simply are not. These MIS salesmen are, in deed, often the direct descendents of the snake oil/medicine show salesmen of the past and the modern public has a right to know them for whom they are.
So if dirty laundry is what one has, in an honest discussion, dirty laundry is what should be exposed. |
