Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG hardware software
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue Jan 16 12:35:57 2007
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20070115215258.00c0b6b0@mail.2alpha.com>

On Jan 15, 2007, at 11:13 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
> We want to hug a sick child.  That's instinct.  Tubes and meters  
> EKGs and IV bags seem cold, impersonal, almost inhuman.  Of course,  
> our hugs will do little good for many sick children--it's those  
> cold, clinical machines--hopefully run by knowledgeable and  
> compassionate doctors like our Steve who will save them.  Still,  
> the attitude persists.  Knowledge can override instinct, but it  
> can't eliminate it entirely.
>
> I look at these pictures of Steve's and I see both of those  
> realities.  The pitifully small child dwarfed by these  
> Frankensteinian machines, and the miracle that those machines might  
> just give the child back his or her health.

that is true and said so well...

it is reality, it is what I see, what I saw here, and for the fact  
that the photo captures something of that... I am very grateful...


thanks Peter...

Steve



>
> --Peter
>
> Re. Steve Barbour's photo,
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2007/icu+care+2.jpg.html
>
> At 10:59 PM 1/14/2007 -0800, Adam Bridge wrote:
>> I'm glad you captured it, Steve.
>>
>> I'm bothered by the almost Luddite tendency of Western society.
>> There's a lack of understanding of science - perpetuated by the media
>> who confuse science and engineering so badly that you'd never know
>> they were different disciplines.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Medicine seems a prime target for this neo-Luddite point of view. The
>> idea that technology might help physicians and nurses be better
>> care-givers somehow gets chomped by the role of the bean-counters.
>>
>> On 1/14/07, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> > when I saw this image I was doing my rounds, and had no camera with
>> > me at the hospital...
>> > but the scene expressed to me exactly what you said above...
>> >
>> > so hours later I returned to the hospital, just to get the shot...
>> > if the image has conveyed this feeling,
>> > I guess it was worth it...
>> >
>> > thank you, Steve
>
>
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