TORONTO FOOT DOCTOR
posted: Feb. 02, 2013.
ONTARIO IS IN AN UNIQUE SITUATION DUE TO GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS APPLIED VIA THE COLLEGE OF CHIROPODISTS OF ONTARIO. THE ONLY PERSON IN ONTARIO THAT CAN LEGALLY CALL HIM OR HERSELF A FOOT DOCTOR WOULD BE AN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON WHO SPECIALIZES IN THE FOOT AND LOWER EXTREMITY. PODIATRISTS WHO ARE TRAINED IN THE UNITED STATES AND EARNED A DEGREE DPM CAN CALL THEMSELVES A DOCTOR EVERYWHERE ELSE EXCEPT ONTARIO BY LAW. THEN THERE ARE CHIROPODISTS, THE MAJORITY OF WHO DID THEIR SCHOOLING IN TORONTO AT THE MICHNER INSTITUTE AND ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CALL THEMSELVES DOCTORS. AT THE PRESENT TIME THE CHIROPODISTS OUTNUMBER ONTARIO PODIATRISTS BY 8 TO 1. THIS RATIO WILL ONLY CONTINUE TO GROW.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY DR. JOHN A. HARDY, OWNER OF ACADEMY FOOT AND ORTHOTIC CLINICS.