Would it bother you if your doctor was wearing shoes like these?

[BloodyMaud]

I love them, but can't really justify them unless I wear them for work, at least sometimes. They have loads of styles - some are definitely innappropriate but wondered if some would be ok. Rest of outfit is usually colourful but fairly smart/ conservative.

I'd probably pay them a polite compliment while giggling in my head, but not in an offensive way. I'd find it amusing. I'd definitely go home and tell my DP and DM what I saw.

However.. are they wipeable as I think I
This is a requirement in healthcare?

Please don’t . I am a doctor. My job involves helping people make life changing decisions , sometimes making plans for end of life care or even just talking about difficult subjects such as loss of independence due to chronic conditions. I think patients deserve to be treated by someone who looks like they are taking the job and the patients seriously and treating they with respect. Unless you are a paediatrician you should keep these shoes for home.

Wow - ickle girlie. Yuck. Love colourful shoes but age appropriate please!

I guess they make you smile? That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it can lead you astray sartorially...

They will wear you, so consider what you want to say. Do they do dark versions so that it's just the shape that is quirky? With small images, people will squint at them and may not concentrate on your words, which in a 5 min consultation, could be a problem?

My respiratory consultant wears the most amazing pink silk high heeled boots, they must be Choos, not my thing at all, but I am mesmerised.

How could it be a “thing”, Sherbrooke? It’s hard to believe that doctors rush like a herd of sheep to wear the latest thing to work?
Are there teenage doctors these days? Or indeed toddler doctors...

I can't recall ever looking at my doctors' shoes, and often they're either behind a desk or I'm in a bed & can't see them.

As long as they don't affect your ability to walk (I would find it odd and unprofessional to wear shoes they obviously can't want comfortably in), it seems like it would be a good way to brighten your day.

Interesting that those who disapprove say they would be disrespectful during bad news while those who have recounted traumatic events didnt care or welcomed more chatworthy fashion.

That is not how I read the thread at all (though it is very long now) and I have had very bad news, and think that whoever is giving it should be respectfully (not corporate at all) dressed.

Also I hate the shoes but that is 100% personal taste and shouldn't be relevant. Maybe it's colouring my views though...

I couldn't care less if my GP is wearing Clown Shoes or Doc Martens or those UggBoot thingies as long as they do their job OK.

And does anyone actually bother to focus on the Doc's feet when they're being stressed out by health worries? Who on earth makes a point of looking under their GP's desk to check out if they're wearing their carpet slippers? (The tartan kind with pom-poms on the front.)

Yet I’ll bet if you were actually confronted by a doctor wearing clown shoes you’d think “ Wtaf?” rather than “Oh good, the doctor is a real live human”

what's with all the "behind a desk" stuff?

Our doctor comes and collects you from the waiting room and sits beside you in the consulting room. You'd notice the shoes...

and I am still of the opinion that they (alongside the wacky ties and socks etc) shout "it's all about me"

They are ugly and attention seeking. I'd probably question her intelligence tbh.

I don't know OP; the priority is obviously that the doctor is helpful, interested polite and professional- so props to you if you are because it seems to hardly ever be the case. If you are then I wouldn't notice I doubt, as a patient.

As a professional though my head says why do it. It's a serious role and requires confidence in the level of seriousness you take so I wouldn't wear them in case anyone took it to demonstrate that I wasn't as such, which theres every chance they could do. Just save it for home perhaps?

I have never been so annoyed by a pair of shoes, before now.

That said, it wouldn’t make a difference to me as a patient.

Beyond because some really don’t move

A screen tells you to go to a room and they are sitting behind a desk

I would think wth if greeted by a consultant in the smiley face ones

The others pah not my taste but wouldn’t think about it

My usual criteria: Do you have a medical degree? Are you available for an appointment? Job done.

Otherwise this shows a general sense of joy in the midst of a highly stressful 12 hour day.

“Interesting that those who disapprove say they would be disrespectful during bad news while those who have recounted traumatic events didnt care or welcomed more chatworthy fashion.”

Strange comment. I don’t think posters have used the term “disrespectful”.

Posts are personal, anecdotal.

It’s likely that SOME people receiving bad news won’t care about such matters, while others would, or have, found minor things like how a doctor dresses jarring.

I’d probably question her intelligence, tbh
This has been said by several posters (and I totally agree). So for all the people jumping up and down doing jazz hands saying “Go for it!!! I’d LOVE this!!! I’d chat to you about my own collection of wacky shoes!! (would you fuck, in a 10 minute appointment for an urgent medical need ) - the fact remains that a sizeable amount of potential patients will be questioning your judgment, your maturity, and yes; your intelligence.

And you won’t know which are which. Until some gobshite tries to use the entire appointment to bollock on about shoes...
The others may well be sitting there thinking you’re a fucking idiot.

Why would you risk that?

@thecatsabsentcojones I think that must be unique to your husband's place of work rather than standard NHS uniform, as most hospitals have banned staff from wearing crocs as there were safety concerns with them. Because they're so soft apparently there was a worry they didn't provide adequate protection from sharps, and people kept tripping over themselves when trying to run lol. I think with the blues too, in most hospitals it's only theatre staff that should wear them, so if your husband works outside that area then I think that must be a uniform policy unique to his work ☺️ (aware I said the same thing twice there but couldn't think how else to word it 😂)

Ha!Ha!Ha! HeadinTheClouds - I'll be sure to take note of the doc's footwear next time I have to go and see him!

“Interesting that those who disapprove say they would be disrespectful during bad news while those who have recounted traumatic events didn't care or welcomed more chatworthy fashion.”

How trite. Those of us who have been through extremely traumatic experiences shouldn't have to use them to be heard.
You might also consider that some experiences are too traumatic to be wheeled out for a thread about wacky shoes. If you can chat about it, it wasn't that traumatic.

If you've never had to manage someone who is paranoid schizophrenic and off their meds, then you just wont get it.

How trite. Those of us who have been through extremely traumatic experiences shouldn't have to use them to be heard

Exactly . Would you like me to tell what the doctor was wearing when she told us our child was dying? Would that make my views more valid?

Oh you bunch of sad acts. They're shoes!

You dont feel offended by any other shoe except these ones?

If I drop to the floor id rather see these shows coming to help me rather than a pair of high heels trying not to fall down..

Why would anyone care?Isnt being professional knowing and doing your job well rather than having so called professional shoes?

I wouldn't judge you as a doctor but I'd think you had horrific taste in shoes and were trying too hard to be " fun".