RE: [Leica] Is a Good Used M6TTL Worth More Than...?

["Buzz Hausner" <buzz.hausner@verizon.net>]

I am not sure what you mean, Austin.  The hospital gets about four to
five grand for the birth, laboratories collect another one and a half to
two thousand.  That's about it for normal prenatal care and a moderately
complicated delivery.

My point is, what's your M6 or M7 worth to you in terms of other aspects
of your life about which one may or may not complain?  For those among
us with stents, was your heart procedure worth as much to you as a
camera?  Your surgeon probably received less than the cost of a used
50mm Summicron for the procedure.  For those of us who are parents, is
your M& worth more to you than the care that you or your wife and your
baby received?  Please don't drag into this discussion all the stuff
about malpractice and medical mistakes, the vast majority of medical
procedures and care transpire without mistakes, just as the majority of
airline flights don't crash.

	Buzz Hausner

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Austin
Franklin
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 10:12 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Is a Good Used M6TTL Worth More Than...?

Buzz,

> I certainly don't ask anyone to feel sorry for physicians.  However,
you
> may want to consider the financial status of the profession.  For
> instance, an obstetrician will provide over thirty weeks of care for a
> pregnant woman.  This care will include ten to twelve office visits of
> between fifteen minutes and a half hour, at the end of which the
doctor
> will deliver the baby, perhaps after being roused at three am to spend
> many hours with the patient before the delivery.  The patient may
> require surgical care to repair any torn tissue or even a hemorrhage.
> After the birth, the patient will be seen for three more office
visits.
> For all of this care, the physician will be reimbursed by an insurance
> company an amount substantially less than the cost of an M7 body and
> only slightly more than the cost of a good used M6 TTL.  Not that the
> doctor gets to keep all of that money...after paying for malpractice
> insurance, rent, staff, supplies, et cetera.

Who gets the other $28,000+++???

Austin

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