>> I'm a semi-retired podiatrist.
I work on a part-time basis.
I love it.
I enjoy it.
I don't do surgical procedures anymore.
I refer them mostly to the school, of Temple
School of Podiatry, but I enjoy the interaction.
I have now grandchildren of the grandparents I
used to treat and stuff, and it's just wonderful
to have that kind of family relationship.
I've always taken the patient very seriously
because my father, who I respected more
than any other man in the world, said
treat everybody like you're family,
and I try to do that in my every day activities,
and I try to convey that to the students.
And if you do that, you'll be successful, and
you won't have, you know, antagonistic people.
I think you'll put them at ease if
you treat them as a family member.
Prior to March 6, 1989, for,
that's when my son was born,
and he's my heart, and he'll be here today.
He's the actor we were talking about.
I would go, prior to 1989,
I'd be in the hospital three
to four mornings a week as chief of surgery.
I'd either perform surgery on my patients
or supervise other attendees of my staff.
And then I would go to do office hours,
and that would be my working career.
I've always had a love for animals.
Back in the years that I used to perform a lot
of podiatry and surgery, I had a horse farm
in which my wife and I did time, raised Arabians
and thoroughbreds as well as boxer dogs.
They've always been a major love of mine.
Back in the day when, in the 70's and 80's,
we had 11 offices that we
were running concurrently.
So we would be performing [inaudible]
it would be my associates and myself,
we would do anywhere from seven
to ten surgical procedures a week
in the hospital as well as office procedures.
So I would say probably the daily, weekly load
would be probably 15 to 20 surgeries a week.
Now, you have to realize my surgical
procedures were 70's and 80's.
Today, they do so far more sophisticated
procedures, but if I was doing an implant,
in other words, replacing a person's joints
at the first metatarsal [inaudible] level,
you certainly want that done
under hospital settings.
Any major bone surgery we
would do in the hospital.
In the office, we would do a nail procedure,
wart removal, things along those lines,
maybe a [inaudible], a [inaudible].
Minor soft-tissue procedures we can do very well
in the office, but when we're dealing with bone,
it's the fear of osteomyelitis, even though
we try to use the most sterile conditions
in the office, you still like to have that
patient monitored in a hospital setting
and have an anesthesiologist right there, too.
But the podiatrist can do anything what
we call from palliative care, that's when,
if you come in with an ingrown
nail or very sore,
inflamed corn or callus, to sports medicine.
We have pediatric orthopedics where they take
care of babies and apply braces, splints,
casting, sometimes surgical procedures.
So it's really the whole scope up to below
the knee, and anything that involves that.
As you mentioned, a lot of people
as they start get into jogging,
they don't do the proper stretching.
They do over, we do overcompensation, you
get shin splints, and it's a wonderful,
wonderful feeling when you can help people and -