Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sent from my iPhone Steve Barbour On Dec 4, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > As far as some points made on the medical profession goes in this thread: > I've run into the idea of late that doctors are frustrated by patients > going > around them by diagnosing themselves and out thinking them by checking out > their symptoms on the internet. > I come from a medical family but to me this is mainly good. I agree, especially in the rare occasions when they get it right This will certainly increase misdiagnoses but it will decrease the number of law suits Steve > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > >> From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:36:34 -0800 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Giving away pictures >> >> >> On Dec 4, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Doug Herr wrote: >> >>> Dr. Ted Grant wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Lawrence Zeitlin offered: >>>>> Tina, I fully agree with your position but you are not describing the >>>>> world as it is. It is harder to make a decent living as an independent >>>>> professional photographer than it is as an actor or even a poet. >>>>> Considering >>>>> the number of professional quality cameras out there, only the tiniest >>>>> fraction deliver pictures that are ever published. Given the quality >>>>> standards imposed by stock agencies, vanishingly few P&S pictures will >>>>> ever >>>>> make the grade regardless of merit unless of a particularly newsworthy >>>>> event. >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Larry, >>>> My reaction to people who give their photos away just for a credit line? >>>> (Sorry I can't do that as my use of the language would be unbearable!) >>>> Trust >>>> me! >>> >>> Ted you took the words right out of my mouth ;) However I see no end to >>> the >>> supply of people who are so hungry for 15 seconds of fame that they'll >>> do it >>> for free. I doubt there's much I can do to hold back this tide but I'm >>> sure >>> not going to participate in it; the profit margin in giving photos away >>> is so >>> small that not even infinite volume will make up for the loss. >> >> I agree, >> >> I didn't want to enter this discussion, but it has made me think of >> present >> day analogous concerns in medicine where pressures exist for free medical >> advice from experts, "the curbside consult"....after all it's only advice, >> nothing changes hands, so why not make managed care providers happy by >> saving >> money, rendering free advice about patient care, why not ....help, look >> smart, >> reduce costs, and save lives to boot.... >> >> as they say .......some advice is free, correct advice will cost. >> >> Steve >> >> >>> >>> Doug Herr >>> Birdman of Sacramento >>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information