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>> My name is Martin Pressman, and
I am a doctor of podiatric medicine.

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I'm a foot and ankle surgeon.

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Well, you know I see 30 patients a day on a
given day, and my day consists of a variety

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of different kinds of problems
that people come in with.

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So I treat people who happen
to have foot problems.

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And so they come in with all kinds of different
problems from simple problems, warts, or corns.

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But people also have skin
lesions that need to be biopsied.

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They have deformities that need to be corrected.

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They've got pain and tendonitis,
those kinds of things.

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So my day is, you know dealing
with patients, taking their history

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and doing a physical examination.

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We deal with a lot of diabetics
who have poor circulation,

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which we have to diagnose and refer.

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But -- so, it's a varied day with what
makes it the same is everyone has a foot

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or ankle problem.

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But what makes it different
is everyone is individual.

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And they all have different problems
and they announce those problems.

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We have to figure out what the problem is.

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So that makes it interesting.

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Well, you know 80 percent of the population
at some time or another has a foot problem.

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So, we see, I mean I see babies who intoe.

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I see children with club feet.

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I see 85-year-old patients with arthritis.

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So, it varies.

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Sports, we do people who are runners
and sports injuries, football players.

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We see a variety of different kinds of patients.

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So, yeah, we have operating days.

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So, you know we're in the office, we
do minor operations in the office,

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removal of ingrown nail or taking out
skin lesions, biopsies, et cetera.

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And then we do surgery in hospitals and surgery
centers depending on the health of the patient.

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So --