[Leica] Sorry BD - I just sent a response before I saw this

[Edward Caliguri <caliguri@rcn.com>]

Yes - you are correct indeed. Most are transfers, as there are few secondary
and tertiary units in the Boston suburban area (Southern Maine being the
next closest I think, that's out of the state of MA) -- and a full book
would take a long time to complete. Time is a major factor there. It is
still very interesting, and very important - but to give the deserved
coverage would be a monumental task. It would be of much interest to me
though. 
    With the push of "Emergency Vets" on television today, I have thought
about following my colleges in clinical vet medicine (I am a researcher) -
and going in that direction at Tufts out in Grafton MA - there, you can
cover the gamut from small animal work, all the way to large (horse, bovine
etc.), surgical work done in the field etc. -- most amazing!
    Ed
> 
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:26:15 -0500
> From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] OR/NICU Photographs
> Message-ID: <002e01c2de6c$300ce1a0$0316fea9@ccasony01>
> References: 
> 
> Funny you should mention the NICU - having written a book 22 years ago
> called Born At Risk, about 24 hours in a NICU, I fairly recently got to
> thinking about the idea of updating it, as a photobook with extensive
> text. And, in fact, have gotten as far as getting clearance to do it at
> Beth Israel-Deaconess in Boston. The problem now is finding the time.
> 
> The problem with doing a NICU project at Boston Children's, or any free
> standing Children's Hospital for that matter, is that you get a skewed
> picture of the NICU - None of the babies are "in-born," they are all
> transfers from other hospitals that couldn't care for them. So while a
> NICU in a good hospital with a delivery service has a mix of infants,
> from the 24 weekers skittering along the very fine edge of
> survivability, to the "monster" full-term, 8 pounder's who simply need
> to be watched for 24 hours. And that makes for a much wider-range of
> parents, in terms of length of time the baby's there, emotions, etc.
> 
> It also, interestingly enough, often makes for radically different
> overall survival rates, with the specialty hospital's
> counter-intuitively having poorer outcomes.
> 
> B. D.
> 
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> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Buzz
> Hausner
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> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] OR/NICU Photographs

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