my shoes are not hot
If you want to see hot shoes, go to Dr. Isis’s blog and her shoes of the week. If you want to see shoes that are not hot, continue on for my ratty hospital clogs. From less than a year of clopping around the hospital, note the lovely asymmetric heal wear on my Dansko clogs from excessive supination (or underpronation) when I walk. For those of you who want to know, over-supination is when your foot rolls excessively outward after making contact with the ground. Individuals with high arches are more prone to supination (apparently, I was a ballerina in a past life). Aside from the wear on the outer edge of the soles, it’s also worth mentioning that there is also virtually no tread left on the soles. Hopefully I won’t slip and break my neck this winter.
Mudphudder standing flat and yet, why can we see my soles?
Despite the very ghetto appearance of the soles, I would say that the dried blood stains (whitish discolorations) on the upper parts of the clogs give them the most character and “not hot” status. Yes, my mad med student skills at suturing lacerations and inserting I.V.s are well reflected by the fact that the blood ends up on my shoes rather than in the patients.
Mudphudder representin
In all seriousness though, I’m scared to touch these clogs with my bare hands out of fearing of contracting a disease. I probably shouldn’t even be wearing them at home.
These shoes don't ask, they demand respect.
These are not hot shoes.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
The surgeons I work with (in an ‘aussie’ hosptial - pronounced ‘ozzie’) wear big white gum boots that the nurses sometimes decorate with black markers. Be thankful!
Good luck with the supination - and the ballet.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:03 pm
They are not crocs, which makes them a-okay in my book. Far too many of the doctors at this hospital feel the need to wear fluorescent orange crocs. Fortunately, my husband is not one of them — he sports Asics, with the requisite blood stains, of course.
I, on the other hand, frequently wear heels to lab… most of which have discolorations from acid spills. Oops. Hence why I always obey the closed-toe shoe rule.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:58 am
Funny!
February 7th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Danskos are the fucking bomb! I have those exact same ones as you: black matte. I only found out about them when I started working at a medical school for the first time and I was all like, “What the fuck is up with these total fucking dork shoes everyone’s wearing?” So I went up to one of the medical students and said, “What the fuck is is up with these total fucking dork shoes everyone’s wearing?” And she said, “Dude, they’re Danskos, and they’re the most comfortable fucking shoes on the planet for standing up a lot. Trust me: buy a fucking pair.” So I did. And she was right.