[Leica] Is a Good Used M6TTL Worth More Than...?

["Buzz Hausner" <buzz.hausner@verizon.net>]

I certainly don't ask anyone to feel sorry for physicians.  However, you
may want to consider the financial status of the profession.  For
instance, an obstetrician will provide over thirty weeks of care for a
pregnant woman.  This care will include ten to twelve office visits of
between fifteen minutes and a half hour, at the end of which the doctor
will deliver the baby, perhaps after being roused at three am to spend
many hours with the patient before the delivery.  The patient may
require surgical care to repair any torn tissue or even a hemorrhage.
After the birth, the patient will be seen for three more office visits.
For all of this care, the physician will be reimbursed by an insurance
company an amount substantially less than the cost of an M7 body and
only slightly more than the cost of a good used M6 TTL.  Not that the
doctor gets to keep all of that money...after paying for malpractice
insurance, rent, staff, supplies, et cetera.

Again, I am not suggesting pity for the doctor, but one might get a
different perspective by weighing the cost of our cameras against the
value of our medical care.

	Buzz Hausner

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I,d suspect that there are other  reasons for speed.
There might be a limit how long surgery can last anyway.
Everybody makes mistakes constantly.
Even though results of mistakes vary.
You can not blame people,s poor design.
You just have to device procedures to minimize mistakes.
It,s a very interesting complex subject human factors.
The highest number of accidents occur in the home when people make tea.
When distracted it,s very easy to boil two times the amount of water and
at
the second to an allready full teapot which can result in horrible burns
for
kids below the counter.
While in the past research focused on aviation and the nuclear
industries
research has shown the complexity and is now focusing on the more common
household accidents.
simon


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