Re: To Dorothy Cryosurgery Lots of doctors seem to be offering it.
View full discussion posted to categoryPosted by Dr. David S. Wander on 12/19/05 16:33
Ralph,
The problem is not with cryosurgery or with Dr. Goldstein, it is often with the doctors that are quick to jump on the bandwagon of new technology. As I'm sure Dr. Goldstein will recall, podiatry has been through a lot of "new" technology over the years including various non-invasive vascular testing, silicone implants, Keragen/collagen injections, EPF, ESWT, etc. There are doctors like Dr. Goldstein that are dedicated and attempting to help patients that have been through a series of failed treatments, and there are the other doctors that are simply opportunists that see cryotherapy as a new fangled way to make money. It happens in all fields of medicine. It's not always the best doctors that have the fanciest toys. Unfortunately, it's those doctors that abuse the technology and ruin it for the legitimate doctors like Dr. Goldstein. I've seen it in my practice when new surgical procedures are introduced with new forms of instrumentation and hardware and surgeons that shouldn't be using the equipment go in over their heads, and I see the patients a year later and have to take the patient into surgery and reconstruct the mess that the last surgeon left behind.
Although the technology isn't new, it's relatively new to podiatry. And as all newer technologies, it will eventually be over-utilized by a certain amount of doctors that will see it as a cash cow and will unfortunately prey on vulnerable patients. Hopefully, Dr. Goldstein will be able to weed some of those doctors out during his training sessions, but it's inevitable and unfortunate.
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