>> My name is Martin Pressman, and I am a doctor of podiatric medicine.
I'm a foot and ankle surgeon.
Well, you know I see 30 patients a day on a given day, and my day consists of a variety
of different kinds of problems that people come in with.
So I treat people who happen to have foot problems.
And so they come in with all kinds of different problems from simple problems, warts, or corns.
But people also have skin lesions that need to be biopsied.
They have deformities that need to be corrected.
They've got pain and tendonitis, those kinds of things.
So my day is, you know dealing with patients, taking their history
and doing a physical examination.
We deal with a lot of diabetics who have poor circulation,
which we have to diagnose and refer.
But -- so, it's a varied day with what makes it the same is everyone has a foot
or ankle problem.
But what makes it different is everyone is individual.
And they all have different problems and they announce those problems.
We have to figure out what the problem is.
So that makes it interesting.
Well, you know 80 percent of the population at some time or another has a foot problem.
So, we see, I mean I see babies who intoe.
I see children with club feet.
I see 85-year-old patients with arthritis.
So, it varies.
Sports, we do people who are runners and sports injuries, football players.
We see a variety of different kinds of patients.
So, yeah, we have operating days.
So, you know we're in the office, we do minor operations in the office,
removal of ingrown nail or taking out skin lesions, biopsies, et cetera.
And then we do surgery in hospitals and surgery centers depending on the health of the patient.
So --