Treating the absence of pain while keeping people moving: worth a life's work

摘要

I grew up in my father's office and so I saw just what a doctor taking care of people's feet could do; how someone could walk in hurting and leave feeling better. This appealed to me because it fit really well into my world view of instant gratification, especially as a kid. What is funny is that over the course of my career, I have gravitated away from this idea of instant reward and more towards the exact opposite; with the diabetic foot really bad things can happen very quickly, but really good things generally take time and happen slowly, so this has surprised even me, because that is the opposite of my nature I think.