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A Foot in the Doctor's Door

  • November 2004
  • By Michael Schrage

The lesson from foot fungus: sometimes your target market isn't really your target market.

   

Take a good hard look at your toenails. are any of them flaky, yellow, and cracked? Then you, too, might be suffering from the heartbreak of onychomycosis.

No smirking please. Onychomycosis is an ugly fungal infection afflicting the toes of more than 35 million Americans. On occasion, it can be excruciatingly painful. More commonly, however, the disease turns toenails into unappetizing strips of calcified decay. Yech.

 

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