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Subject: [Leica] Perveez..."I'm back" - Nothing to do with photography....
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon Apr 5 17:11:43 2004
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B. D. Colen wrote:

> In response to Jim "I would have been an allergist... the patients don't
> die" Hemenway's comment...
> 
> So back in 1991, for the 10th 'anniversary' of the publication of the
> first report of four cases of what would become known as AIDS, I wrote a
> 12,000 word package for Newsday that consisted of profiles of about a
> dozen people whose lives had been impacted by the entire course of the
> epidemic....One of them was an infectious disease specialist, who, if
> memory serves me correctly, was the head of the AIDS program at
> Montefiore Hospital, in the Bronx....He started out by asking me if I
> had read John O'Hara's "Appointment in Samara, which begins with a
> telling of an old Arab folk tale....Seems a merchant loaned his servant
> his fastest horse, and sent him to the market in Baghdad to shop for
> dinner. While the servant was pawing the vegetables, he looked up and
> saw Death watching him from across the vegetable bin. The servant
> immediately panicked, jumped on the horse and fled to Samara....Well,
> after the servant failed to return home, the merchant went to the market
> place, where he ran into Death. "Have you seen my servant?" the merchant
> asked Death. "I sent him here to shop for dinner but he never came
> home." 
> "He was here," replied Death, "but he left rode off. But I'll be seeing
> him later, because I have tonight he and I have an appointment in
> Samara."
> 
> So, this AIDS doc tells me, in the late 1970s he was training to be an
> oncologist - a cancer doc - and had a fellowship at the NIH clinical
> center in Bethesda. 'But all those dying patients really got to me - in
> fact everyone died. So,' he explained, 'I said to hell with this, went
> up to Boston and did a Fellowship in infectious disease, because I
> figured, infectious disease? Nobody dies. You give them antibiotics and
> they get well.'

Perveez almost died because of an antibiotic...

and now of course along, with HIV we have  a 
variety of lethal viruses  from Lassa fever  and 
Marburg to SARS, bird flu,  and others....

time and material for another article on these 
issues BD....Steve



> Having completed his ID Fellowship, the doc returned to NYC just around
> 1979, 'and just about that time,' he said, 'we started to see prisoners
> at Riker's Island with some weird symptoms that we started calling
> 'Riker's Island Lymphadanopathy - They were the first patients anyone
> was seeing with what would become AIDS.' 
> 
> So he had kept his appointment in Samara......
> 
> Back to photography... ;-)
> 
> B. D.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Jim Hemenway
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:41 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Perveez..."I'm back"
> 
> 
> Steve:
> 
> A heartwarming shot,
> 
> "You wouldn't believe how worried they were while you were sick!"
> 
> 
> Jim, "I would have been an allergist... the patients don't die" Hemenway
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Barbour wrote:
> 
> 
>>Perveez, on the right, back to normal after life threatening illness, 
>>out of the ICU... with her sister. Taken,   just before discharge....
>>
>>http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-63807.html
>>
>>
>>M7 Noctilux  f1  on portrabw 400
>>
>>yes, yes, yes....
>>
>>thanks for looking ...
>>
>>Steve
>>
> 
> 
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