Patients Don ’t Buy Backboards

I have a Labrador named Eddie. He eats only Eukanuba dog food. That’s because we buy it for him. If we bought him a different brand, I’m sure he would eat that as well. He might need to get a little hungry before he agreed to the switch, but my gut tells me that he would eventually concede. Knowing my dog, probably sooner than later. I want to quote from the Eukanuba web site: Satisfy your dog’s taste buds with the succulent flavors of beef and rice. Your dog is sure to enjoy every bite with real beef as a key ingredient. Reading this, one thing is clear. Dogs don’t by dog food. This product was clearly not formulated for dogs and it isn’t marketed to dogs. This product is designed to make people feel good about what they’re feeding their dogs. If dog food was made for dogs it would be cat flavored or rodent flavored or bird flavored … or maybe even other dogs butt flavored. My dog doesn’t care about succulent beef and rice. He cares about feeling full. Nobody is going to convince me that rice tastes succulent to a dog. So what about backboards? Patients don’t buy the backboards they ride to the hospital on do they? Patients are the end users of the product, but EMS organizations make the decision which backboards to buy. It stands to reason that the backboards are probably designed more for the people who buy them than the people who use them. You see where I’m going with this right? If patients bougt their own backboards I sus...
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