Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >