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The College of Minimal Invasive Foot & Ankle Surgery

Discussion in 'United Kingdom' started by admin, Nov 9, 2004.

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  1. bob

    bob Active Member

    Somuz,

    I would have thought a gentleman with so many letters after his name would have the intelligence to take the aforementioned comment on the chin. If you want to promote your organisation you ought to ignore such comments instead of answering to them on here and declaring your intent - "I will email this message to HPC" read - "I'm telling teacher on you!" ;)

    Also, I'm not sure what you mean when you say "Jealousy can only burn you out not me. I do not think you are fit to be podiatric surgeon, with this kind of attitudes!" How many attitudes does Dieter have? I was under the assumption that all podiatrists, not just surgeons, had to be screened for mental illness. I learn something new every day. :D

    Bob :cool:

    P.S. I love google and my right mouse button! :p See http://www.cmifas.co.uk/, http://www.josephmaroon.com/ablacv.htm and http://www.parathyroid.com/disclaimer.htm :p

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  2. mazzoncini

    mazzoncini Member

    Dear colleagues, I am a South African (BSc Hons UK) podiatrist living and practising in Italy. I would like to inform you that MIS is now trying to creep into Italy and is making big waves over here. I was repeatedly tried to advise the orthopaedic and podiatry profession not to take this form of surgery as an alternative to open surgery, but certain indviduals have travelled to the USA and have done short courses in MIS and now are convinced that this is the "future" surgical procedure. I have also been to Spain and have watched certain Spanish podiatric surgeons performing MIS which all looks great, but in essence only treats the symptoms and not the cause. Lets face it how can you reduce a IM angle in Hallux valgus pathologies or MPE with MIS ???? Unfortunately this type of surgery is now being advertised on local TV and articles have been written in women's magazines - LUNCH BREAK SURGERY !!! Have your bunionectomy done at lunchtime and return to your office pain free!!

    With tongue in cheek I am looking on to what will happen over here.

    Regards
    Maurizio
     
  3. Craig Payne

    Craig Payne Moderator

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    Paradoxical thing is that the vast majority of pioneers of MIS in the USA now disown it and are "pulling their hair out" this development....funny how some are so blinded not to learn by past mistakes.
     
  4. Cameron

    Cameron Well-Known Member

  5. Ian Reilly

    Ian Reilly Active Member

    Cameron

    Yes it is, and as I have started before on this and other threads: MIS can work. However, this technique is not a cure-all and some cases will need further/revisionary surgery such as a traditional open neurectomy. A MIS-only practitioner would presumably have to refer on at this point...

    Ian
     
  6. Cameron

    Cameron Well-Known Member

    Thanks Ian .

    Cameron
     
  7. Euan McGivern

    Euan McGivern Active Member

    I know this is an old thread but I noticed this on the HPC site:

    Conduct and Competence Committee Panel

    Region: England - London

    Registrant Name: Mr Amin M Sain

    Panel: Conduct and Competence Committee

    Notice Of Allegation:

    Fitness to practise as a registered health professional is impaired by reason of your Misconduct, in that you have been practicing the treatment of minimal invasive surgery without the full underpinning surgical knowledge necessary to perform this type of surgery safely, and in doing this you are acting beyond your scope of practice.

    And;

    Fitness to practise as a registered health professional is impaired by reason of your misconduct, in relation to the content of the website for the General Podiatric Surgery Council.
     
  8. cornmerchant

    cornmerchant Well-Known Member

    I saw that too but I wasnt as clever as you to be able to relate it to the past thread which I knew I had seen somewhere!

    Maybe the HPC could for once be doing us all a favour!

    Cornmerchant
     
  9. drsarbes

    drsarbes Well-Known Member

    "Now, Minimally invasive foot and ankle surgery (MIS). MIS was founded and pioneered by the Academy of Foot & Ankle surgery in the USA some 40 years ago. It was a small group of Podiatrists who had the courage and vision to try something different to conventional open foot surgery techiques and they developed surgical procedures which can be done on foot deformities by using small incisions and dental type burrs. Partial nail evolution is an MIS procedure! MIS is evidence based. Today MIS is done in many countries around the globe incuding Europe: Spain, Germany, Italy, France …and now the UK. People who are doing MIS foot surgery are podiatrists, orthopaedic surgeons, plastic surgeons and MDs. The medical field has embraced MIS and it is used in cardiology, orthopaedics, nephrology just to name a few medical specialities. Some dentists have specialised to do MIS dental procedures. Today I do MIS foot surgery procedures for hammer toes, hallux abducto valgus surgery, metatarsalgia, Mortons neuroma and heel surgery."

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    Dear Dr. Sain:

    This quote from one of your posts does not tell the entire "story", as I'm sure you are aware.

    As the profession of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery evolved in the USA and became more of a surgical specialty, there was a period when many existing practitioners had little to no surgical training. MIS workshops and seminars were a way for some of these Podiatrists to learn procedures that they could perform in the office without the advantage of learning classic principles of open surgery (i.e., tissue handling, suturing, surgical anatomy, procedure selection and indications, hospital protocols, on and on..........) Many times given by those with no surgical training.

    As you may expect, there was quite the conflict between these newly, abridged surgeons and those coming out of surgical residencies. MIS accounted for an increase in conflict between Orthopedic and podiatry as well, since many complications from MIS (malunions, infections, nerve damage, scar tissue, etc.) were being seen by non podiatrists.

    Basically, from an historical perspective, it would be safe to say the MIS was incredibly divisive for our profession.

    Now to make the QUANTUM leap and compare endoscopic or arthroscopic surgery (those that require smaller less invasive approaches) to Podiatric Minimal Incision Surgery is a gross misrepresentation. This is like comparing an endoscope to a Shannon #44 bur!

    Debates here are welcome, but know that there are members here from all over the world and cover all aspects of Foot & Ankle care, and you won't get by with many "mis statements".

    Steve
     
  10. tonyw

    tonyw Member

    check out HPC complaints / hearings if you are intereted in becoming a Podiatric surgeon, then contact SOCAP website for the latest approved training document issued by SOCAP faculty of surgery

    Tony Wilkinson
    Vice-Dean Faculty of surgery
     
  11. admin

    admin Administrator Staff Member

    Tony - we followed this story here: Nottingham foot specialist 'lied about knowledge'
     
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