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I was just reading the lastest issue of Sports Health from Sports Medicine Australia. The CEO's article is on "When does extending scope of practice become encroachment?"
Under the section on 'Recapture the foot'!, the author in part wrote:
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Ironically the rumour emerged at a conference where a senior sports physiotherapist publically stated that the emergence of podiatry in sports medicine and its assumption of responsibility for most foot problems was one of the more liberating expeiences of his professional life(2)
I quickly went to the next page to see what reference (2) was about:
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2. Peter Dorman: SMA Queensland Conference. Response to paper by Craig Payne. (personal note)
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Craig Payne
Department of Podiatry
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia http://www.latrobe.edu.au/podiatry
__________________________________________________ ___________________________________ God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things - right now I am so far behind, I will never die.
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