Thursday, March 20, 2008

Once Again, Texas Leads the Way

Legal Battle Rages Over Whether Ankles Exist - San Antonio News Story - KSAT San Antonio: "AUSTIN -- For every foot, there's an ankle. Or not.

In Texas, that all depends on a legal battle between medical doctors and podiatrists, who both claim the ankle as their turf. The debate has raged to the point that the two sides disagree in court on whether the ankle actually exists.

A state appeals court recently sided with medical doctors when it determined that the state board that licenses podiatrists exceeded its authority in defining the ankle as part of the foot.

'You don't have an ankle,' said Mark Hanna, a lawyer for the Texas Podiatric Medical Association. 'The foot actually includes the ankle. If you took the foot off the leg, there is nothing lying there that's the ankle.'"

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