Aug 24, 10 04:10AM
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GlassHospital is on vacation this week, writing to you from vibrant Toronto. Toronto is home to the Bata Shoe Museum, well worth a visit if you’re ever here on a Thursday night when admission is free. In addition to a display featuring shoes of Elton John and Shaquille O’Neal (among others), there is a nice [...]
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Great, great post that so well illustrates what’s really driving the out-of-control costs in our health care system: uncontrolled overutilization of medical resources by doctors and patients both.
Hi, John–
Really enjoyed reading this. Thanks. You’re the best! xo, Rose
P.S. I’ve always loved that Steve Martin bit about “cruel shoes!”
Not sure I agree with you. As a foot pain sufferer (apparently I dislocated a joint in my foot jumping across a creek in a race last year, though I didn’t know this until after the x-ray), I can tell you that my injured foot is now definitely longer than my non-injured foot (again, about 1/2 inch). This is causing stress on the plantar fascia, which you can see is pulled tight when the toes are pulled back, compared to the non-injured foot. I believe that a lot of PF cases are in fact caused by minor foot remodeling due to injury or athletic stresses. I probably didn’t need a CT scan to tell me this, but the podiatrist was able to at least explain what was happening to me so that I knew there wasn’t a stress fracture and what I could get away with as far as training.
The question for me is whether Sally should have started at the running shoe store instead of with the doctor. If she had, would the doctors, x-rays, ct scan, foot molds, stress, cost, etc.have been avoided. Those new shoes were a whole size larger! I guess we can’t know. (And, how many other health problems can be solved at the running shoe store?)
Thank you for the thoughtful piece.
Cruel Shoes was a great book. I still have my original copy, albeit falling apart.
Great mix of humor and thoughtfulness. Your posts are always interesting to read.
As a Diabetes Educator I can also tell you that 60% of those with type 2 diabetes have sleep apnea though many have not been diagnosed- but that is what our literature indicates.Sleep Apnea can lead to type 2 diabetes so its important to treat not just to get a good nights sleep. Lack of sleep increases insulin resistance in several ways via cortisol and other stress hormones and a general lethargy that slows physical activity.
Losing weight ( or more importantly shrinking our waistlines as fat in this area is mostly to blame) will solve MANY health issues. I’m all about getting to the heart of medical issues:-).