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Post by sayhey24 on Mar 6, 2018 18:59:44 GMT -5
Española? Why did they pick that location? Anyone have any insights? It's 30 mins north of Santa Fe and Los Alamos (relatively close) and 90 mins from Albuquerque. As a total guess two Native American pueblo tribes border the town: Santa Clara Pueblo on the south and Ohkay Owingeh on the north. I have seen numbers as high as 35% having T2. Maybe they got a grant. If they did and are using afrezza that would be awesome news if they have great success.
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Post by digger on Mar 7, 2018 0:17:56 GMT -5
Is the photo of the location accurate -- If so, it's not a very appealing clinic.
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Post by sportsrancho on Mar 16, 2018 9:24:12 GMT -5
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Post by sayhey24 on Mar 16, 2018 10:32:43 GMT -5
Sports - was my guess correct? Did they get a grant to work with the Ohkay Owingeh and Pueblo?
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Post by sportsrancho on Mar 16, 2018 12:13:13 GMT -5
Sports - was my guess correct? Did they get a grant to work with the Ohkay Owingeh and Pueblo? No grant that I’m aware, but you got the other dots connected:-)
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Post by LosingMyBullishness on Mar 16, 2018 18:13:19 GMT -5
I’m sorry, could you please produce the person that visited the closest office. Mr. Smart ass!
Sports. The term he used (bonnet) may be a clue that he's talking out of his (arse). If you get my meaning.
Incorrect. I have been following the VDex threads from the start as this is sadly my only source of information about this business. Insulting s.o. who does not belief testimonials on websites or vague anonymous of their founders makes little sense and does not improve the value of this board.
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Post by rockstarrick on Mar 16, 2018 19:30:46 GMT -5
So you believe more in tweets than in people visiting closed offices? I recall a guy, who believed that the lights of his car were on because his dashboard told him so despite a clear evidence slightly above his bonnet. I’m sorry, could you please produce the person that visited the closest office. Mr. Smart ass! OMG, I just choked on my drink 😂😂😂😂 LMB just got his/ her ass handed to them. vdex vdex vdex vdex vdex vdex vdex vdex,,,,,,,,,, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Post by digger on Mar 16, 2018 22:13:22 GMT -5
I don't see how potential customers are supposed to find them or their clinics. The only phone number is on their website; it's not listed in any yellow or white pages that I could find. That leaves the website as the only place as a source to arrange an appointment using either the form or the toll-free number. Unless a diabetic stumbled across a tweet or their facebook page, how would anyone even know they exist?
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Post by brotherm1 on Mar 16, 2018 22:55:47 GMT -5
I don't see how potential customers are supposed to find them or their clinics. The only phone number is on their website; it's not listed in any yellow or white pages that I could find. That leaves the website as the only place as a source to arrange an appointment using either the form or the toll-free number. Unless a diabetic stumbled across a tweet or their facebook page, how would anyone even know they exist? If you were the owner of a Maserati and you needed a reputable mechanic that knew what he was doing, and whom you could trust to work on it, and there was only one such garage in town, you would quickly hear about it through other Maserati club members.
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Post by digger on Mar 16, 2018 23:27:24 GMT -5
I don't see how potential customers are supposed to find them or their clinics. The only phone number is on their website; it's not listed in any yellow or white pages that I could find. That leaves the website as the only place as a source to arrange an appointment using either the form or the toll-free number. Unless a diabetic stumbled across a tweet or their facebook page, how would anyone even know they exist? If you were the owner of a Maserati and you needed a reputable mechanic that knew what he was doing, and whom you could trust to work on it, and there was only one such garage in town, you would quickly hear about it through other Maserati club members. You might if you were actually a member of a Maserati club and you knew how to contact other members. Even if not, you could google "reliable maserati mechanics" and find information. But most diabetics likely don't have much face time with other diabetics and googling "best clinic for diabetes management" won't reveal anything either. I have also tried to find some reference to VDEX on diabetes blogs and the only one I could find was from a couple of years ago and it apparently was flagged as spam -- forum.tudiabetes.org/t/vdex-diabetes-center/56762. So I'm still left wondering what would provoke an average diabetic to go looking for a VDEX clinic. Does it do any local advertising that I might be missing?
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Post by nylefty on Mar 16, 2018 23:54:11 GMT -5
digger: Why this obsession with what you see as the faults of Vdex? I can somewhat understand the bashing of MNKD by shorts or disgruntled shareholders, but why Vdex, a privately-held company?
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Post by sportsrancho on Mar 17, 2018 6:11:36 GMT -5
There’s a well known short that’s been posting the same questions other places, even posting a picture of one of the Vdex’s and asking why they didn’t have a sign-up. I just have to chuckle because he hasn’t figured that out yet.
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Post by sportsrancho on Mar 23, 2018 10:34:36 GMT -5
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Post by LosingMyBullishness on Mar 26, 2018 1:50:15 GMT -5
digger: Why this obsession with what you see as the faults of Vdex? I can somewhat understand the bashing of MNKD by shorts or disgruntled shareholders, but why Vdex, a privately-held company? Given the low sales figure it is important for me to understand the VDex concept. They disclose very little. Is someone on this board a client of VDex or been to their offices frequently? I have not read every post but therr were at least 2 posts that the office has been closed that day. Sure, they can close for some hours. A report of a recent visit would be great. Testimonials on a website are not credible IMO as they are marketing tools.
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Post by matt on Mar 26, 2018 6:53:32 GMT -5
Española? Why did they pick that location? Anyone have any insights? It's 30 mins north of Santa Fe and Los Alamos (relatively close) and 90 mins from Albuquerque. As a total guess two Native American pueblo tribes border the town: Santa Clara Pueblo on the south and Ohkay Owingeh on the north. I have seen numbers as high as 35% having T2. Maybe they got a grant. If they did and are using afrezza that would be awesome news if they have great success. That is a very good guess. The Pima tribe of Native Americans ranged from central Arizona and New Mexico south 200 across the Mexican border. They were a desert people living off a high fiber, low fat diet of cactus, woody plants, corn, brown rice, and wild game / fish. Prior to WWII, metabolic disease was practically unheard of on either side of the border, and historically the people of the tribe could wander north and south without regard to political borders. The Pima are one of the only homogenous, genetically identical people separated by an artificial border. After WWII the border started to be enforced and the disease rates diverged. American Pima north of the border adopted a typical urban profile with a US diet and the Mexican Pima to the south maintained the traditional life style and diet. The US Pima have the highest recorded rate of metabolic disease for any ethnic group on the planet with prevalence of diabetes at 34% for adult age males and 41% for adult age females; those rates increase to 70% of both sexes by age 55. In comparison, the Mexican Pima have rates of 6% for adult males, 9% for adult females. Since the Pima are genetically identical any differences that begin at the border are attributable to life style and diet choice. This provides an interesting laboratory to study health innovations, and for this reason the Pima are the most studied ethnic population on earth. Just do a Google search on "Pima diabetes" and you will find numerous studies.
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