"Podiatry offers focus. It is aimed at one function--that of the foot and ankle. It also allows me to focus on how it is affected by and affects conditions in the rest of the body. Everything's connected, and in that respect podiatry is seamlessly connected to other specialties."

This is another stab at separating podiatry from the 'mainstream' specialties. You chose podiatry for a reason, so you should have no difficulty answering this question with what you see as its clear advantages, e.g., sub-specialization, focused clinical approaches, and its interaction with the so-called 'mainstream' specialties.

"All one need do is look at diabetes to see where the so called 'mainstream' specialties end and podiatry begins. Mainstream medicine often stops at a certain point and doesn't follow through on the full impact of the pathology. If a patient cannot walk, due to diabetic foot ulcers, there can be no victory in, for example, reducing a hemoglobin 1Ac."