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The "Insulin OK" Shoe

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by CamWhite, Oct 8, 2010.

  1. CamWhite

    CamWhite Active Member

  2. :dizzy: no stop it, my pancreas hurts. No seriously, it does, ever since I started wearing these shoes...

    Saw something similar today in "stretch walkers". At £150 per pair they must be good, right?

    Sick of seeing these and their kin now, and even more sick of the bull**** salesmen that part patients who have serious foot complaints with £150+ of their hard earned. They need a good ****ing (the salesmen, that is). Particularly when the said patients really, really, No, really, need surgical intervention for their non-existent PT function. I guess they'll buy into anything to avoid surgery. Yet in my eyes the shoes these patients have been sold are not "foot solutions" to their problems. Indeed, the patient that attended today had been sold a pair of shoes which made her feet bleed as they were the wrong size, she took them back and was told that there could be no refund because she had worn them. She then proceeded to buy another pair without a refund upon the first. What? Feeding off the desperate I say, heaven help us.

    Raw nerve. "Look at it, say what it is- piece of ****, repeat after me: piece of ****...." Bill Hicks
    Of equal worry is if an individual with diabetes stops injecting their insulin because they buy into this crap...
    Time to start forcing anyone who makes claims in their advertising regarding medical benefits of a product to have to jump through the same hoops as pharmaceutical companies marketing new drugs, me thinks. "Rub this **** on your face, it'll make you look younger".... and similar bull**** has now spread to the feet.
     
  3. pgcarter

    pgcarter Well-Known Member

    What are you willing to bet on the science backing? Other peoples feet? your own money? or are you being sarcastic?
    regards Phill Carter
     
  4. CamWhite

    CamWhite Active Member

    I was being completely sarcastic. Perhaps I should have chosen another emoticon.
     
  5. pgcarter

    pgcarter Well-Known Member

    Hi Cam,
    I sympathise with the result, but over the net sarcasm often fails completely,it can make you look a complete d###,or Collingwood supporter as we say in Melbourne......
    regards Phill
     
  6. CamWhite

    CamWhite Active Member

    In hindsight, which is always 20/20, I was way too subtle in my sarcasm.
     
  7. pgcarter

    pgcarter Well-Known Member

    Congratulations to you Cam, having 20/20 hindsight is better than most, even my hindsight struggles to see where I went wrong sometimes....not being sarcastic.
    regards Phill
     
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