Responses:speaking of shoes

Responses:speaking of shoes

Joe

10/5/2000

Seventeen responses were returned. Fifteen related to the post all too
much. I'm glad you got the good laugh as it was intended. One
respondent offered that it was not to late to try another profession.
My employer says, I warned you. So I've heard that before. After 23
years in the race he really wants someone else to carry the torch.
Many thanks to those of you who offered experienced based wisdom as to
which shoes are in your rack. In the interest of furthering our
collective knowledge base I will pass this along.
One other note if any of you are looking for a practitioner who doubles
as an expert shoe salesman, and expresses himself in PG13 contact David.
His literary piece is last. What you see is a cut and paste of what I
got!

Thanks again
Joe Harvey NCOPE resident


Sometimes the truth is not easy for everyone to read, but someone has to

say it. Your e-mail reminds me of the story of the boy who said The
Emperor has no clothes!!
P.S. I no longer provide shoes.
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All to familiar !!!!!
I now stock APEX ambulators in all styles. I do not offer any other shoe

(except custom) unless a patient has a wide forefoot and needs
deerskin/elastic/wide front shoe. Then I will special order a PW Minor
or
Acor shoe. but the ambulators are fairly well accepted by most, and by
limiting the menu, I have noticed that there is better acceptance of the

shoe. less choice, less bitchy client. That is not what I want to do,
but it
is a necessity in the scope of this dilemma.
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Try Apex Ambulators, at least you get a lower price point.
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This is great. I'm a C.Ped and BOCO with about thirty years of shoe
fitting
experience having been raised in a family shoe business. We stock SAS,
PW's
and Drews and a few others. With all my fitting experience and
inventory
it's sometimes still a nightmare to fit a human foot into a pair of
shoes--and then you have all those factors that you touched on. I
usually
bill $120 (the Medicare allowable) for all shoes, even those that sell
for
$100. You ought to hear the people howl that I'm cheating Medicare. I
don't know how you guys that don't have the experience or inventory do
it.
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Joe --- you might look into Drew Shoes. I use them and not PW, because
the
heel is tighter . They do have economical styles and the Doublers are
double
extra depth for the diabetics. They are also better constructed and
last
longer , so patients are happier. The sizing is truer to the Branock
stick
measurements than PW. and there is no single order fee. I have been
very
happy with Drew.
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LAST BUT NOT LEAST...drum roll please for <Email Address Redacted>

what a f..... idiot u must be. First of all climb off of your house and

take a look around, shoe are an interracial part of any othotics and
prosthetic business. You have not been the field long enough to
understand
that shoe can and will bring other business that brings in money. Shoe
do
produce a positive income for a company that does them right but you
must
not be smart enough to see that. If you are that dissatisfied with your
carrier discussion than go and jump off the highest building in your
town
because we don't need people in the field that think like you. you
stupid
dumb m f