[Leica] Re: collectors and used Leica rareness...

[Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>]

So, are you or your spouse (or both) MDs?
BTW, a spool of film is spelled "roll", but I'm sure that 11+ years
of education didn't cover that.
I won't argue point by point, but I stand by my post EXACTLY as written, 
flame bait or not.
You have proven my point, and NO I'm not offended by your characterization
of lab supervisors.  I asked for it, it's the MDs that lose their sense of 
humor when their "profession" is "attacked" -- since my "job" isn't a "profession"
to them.
BTW, since YOU'RE comparing professions, let me share an observation made by a friend 
a few years back.  
When I go to the doctor, I wait an average of 45+ minutes for "service".
When I worked for a Leica dealer, how long would an MD wait for service?  Anything 
more than 45 seconds and he was jumping up and down telling us how goddamn important
he was.

Guess you don't have a problem with that????

Well, I guess we should drop this because the list admin should pop up any minute 
now....."off-topic" you know....

Good day, thanks for the rapid response and proof of some of my points.
Walt in Denton


On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:59:53 -0800 (PST) Shawn London 
<srlondon@yahoo.com> wrote:S
> 
>         
> Ordinarily, I hold my tongue when it seems that someone is on a
> fishing expedition (a post designed to act as "bait"), but in this
> case, the author's tone and aggression warrant a point-by-point reply.
>                 
> From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
> 
> >If the medical/legal professionals are offended by our >disdain for
> "dr./lawyer camera bashing",
> 
> Probably about as offended as you'd be if I told a story about how ten
> roles of film with irreplacable photos were ruined because all lab
> supervisors who are supposed to be helping their workers are always in
> the other room smoking cigars and reading dirty magazines.  You can
> generalize about anybody... that doesn't make it true or fair.
> 
> >imagine how offended this poor photographer/lab         
> >supervisor was when a local E.R. doctor was paid $250 >for FIVE
> minutes observation by my insurance, THEN the >dumbass sent ME a bill
> for an additional $200, clearly >in violation of my 
> >HMO regs!!
> 
> It was probably his "dumbass" billing clerk rather than an attempt at
> a personal attack on your bank account.  And, depending on your plan,
> you might have violated your HMO's arcane regulations by having the
> nerve to go the ER for anything less than a gunshot wound to the
> chest.  Many HMO's in my neck of the woods do not consider dehydration
> an emergency.
> 
> >$450 to tell me I had an intestinal infection and was >dehydrated -
> >WHICH I TOLD HIM WHEN I ARRIVED!!!
> 
> It does not matter what you tell a doctor.  If you were not correct
> and he blindly followed your suggestion and gave you the wrong drug,
> for instance, you can turn around and sue him.  He is risking his
> licensure and livelihood in our litigous soceity with each patient he
> sees and thus must make his own decisions.  He doesn't deserve to be
> compensated for that in your mind?
> 
> >So be offended....I too have eight years of higher 
> >education, 20 years of experience, 
> 
> Try eleven years of higher education, minimum, as long as you've
> started counting.  
> 
> There are plenty of people who make a lot more money than you do for a
> hell of a lot less work than an ER doc puts in.  As you seem to have
> figured out for yourself, life is not fair.  Blindly lashing out at a
> profession that has managed to help the United States become one of
> the healthiest countries in the world serves no purpose.
> 
> If your beef is with collectors, look around on the LUG.  There are
> plenty of offenders who are not members of the legal or medical
> professions.
> 
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