From: Jean Czerlinski <jczer@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu>
Message-Id: <9610090410.AA12124@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu>
Subject: foot doctors
To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 96 23:10:59 CDT
In-Reply-To: <199610081957.OAA06787@medicine>; from "Gavin Hougham" at Oct 08, 96 2:54 pm
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]

Hi, Gavin, I keep seeing your .sig on socgrad and so can't resist
asking you a small question.  Don't answer if you're too busy.

In Hyde Park I have the impression that a lot of foot-doctor
ads are directed toward the poor.  Why is this?  Are there
more foot problems among the poor?  Why?  Is it directed more
toward the working poor or the unemployed on welfare?  If
it's the working poor, I can imagine they have poor feet
from doing McJobs where you stand a lot-- from my own
experiences in such jobs I know your blood pools in your
feet and your feet then swell and over years this can't
be too healthy.  But if the ads are directed more to the
unemployed, then I'm less sure.  Maybe medicaire is
generous to foot doctors, so the ads are there less because
there's a need for foot doctors then because it's such
a lucrative business for them.

Just curious,


Jean


P.s.  I'm all for T.R. Young's posts too but won't voice
my opinion unless necessary.  (I also think he's a bit of
a flake, but I nevertheless find some of his stuff useful
and interesting.)