RE: [Leica] OR photography and what can really happen

["Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>]

Edward--

There was a recent report on NPR about how many times surgeons left
instruments and other debris INSIDE the patient prior to closing the
incisions. It was horrifying. Apparently they are under so much pressure to
perform quickly that they are making horrible mistakes. I'm also thinking of
the transplant mistake last week. It probably will be tricky to obtain
permission to photograph in hospitals, but if you prepare the groundwork
sufficiently in advance, make friends with the docs you want to  work with,
really take the time to make yourself a known quantity to them, and to make
it clear that you aren't there to show their mistakes, but to show the human
side of the subject, you may have some luck.

You're a veterinarian, yes? So you know how doctors feel already. Gosh, I'd
love to follow you around and document what you do!

Kit

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Caliguri
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Subject: [Leica] OR photography and what can really happen


Thanks Buzz, Tina-
    With my wife's help - I'm a health care professional as well (animals!)
- - I might pull it off if I can find the time. The OR  - human or otherwise -
is a tough place to be admitted, with the freedom to listen and photograph.
I have heard some stories from my wife (even concerning world class
surgeons) that would curl nose hair - worse than the surgeon who left his
Orthopedic patient open in the OR here in Boston just to make a an ATM
transaction --- you can bet that they are on their best behavior when
someone is watching, with a camera no less. In some ways, however, I think
that the stories she tells from the NICU are more robust and sincere
(children bring out the best in these folks), with much fewer incidents of
'questionable' behavior from surgeons and surgical residents -- I hope!
Maybe BD and Ted have seen/heard these tales.
    Ed

> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:29:27 -0500
> From: "Buzz Hausner" <buzz.hausner@verizon.net>
> Subject: [Leica] OR/NICU Photographs
> Message-ID: <000001c2de10$721e0c10$121afea9@Hausner>
> References:
>
> Well...perhaps and perhaps not.  Ted and Sandy are photographing a book
> on "Women In Medicine," capturing, as I understand it, women in all
> venues where medicine is practiced.  We'll have to wait for a report
> from Ted and Sandy whether or not they worked in a NICU (Neonatal
> Intensive Care Unit).  I am certain they will be photographing in the OR
> because I know one of the surgeons who they will follow.
>
> Hospital administrators seem reluctant...stupidly...to permit
> documentary photography in intensive care units.  This may be from
> liability jitters, but who knows.
>
> Buzz Hausner

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