Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In response to Jim "I would have been an allergist... the patients don't die" Hemenway's comment... So back in 1991, for the 10th 'anniversary' of the publication of the first report of four cases of what would become known as AIDS, I wrote a 12,000 word package for Newsday that consisted of profiles of about a dozen people whose lives had been impacted by the entire course of the epidemic....One of them was an infectious disease specialist, who, if memory serves me correctly, was the head of the AIDS program at Montefiore Hospital, in the Bronx....He started out by asking me if I had read John O'Hara's "Appointment in Samara, which begins with a telling of an old Arab folk tale....Seems a merchant loaned his servant his fastest horse, and sent him to the market in Baghdad to shop for dinner. While the servant was pawing the vegetables, he looked up and saw Death watching him from across the vegetable bin. The servant immediately panicked, jumped on the horse and fled to Samara....Well, after the servant failed to return home, the merchant went to the market place, where he ran into Death. "Have you seen my servant?" the merchant asked Death. "I sent him here to shop for dinner but he never came home." "He was here," replied Death, "but he left rode off. But I'll be seeing him later, because I have tonight he and I have an appointment in Samara." So, this AIDS doc tells me, in the late 1970s he was training to be an oncologist - a cancer doc - and had a fellowship at the NIH clinical center in Bethesda. 'But all those dying patients really got to me - in fact everyone died. So,' he explained, 'I said to hell with this, went up to Boston and did a Fellowship in infectious disease, because I figured, infectious disease? Nobody dies. You give them antibiotics and they get well.' Having completed his ID Fellowship, the doc returned to NYC just around 1979, 'and just about that time,' he said, 'we started to see prisoners at Riker's Island with some weird symptoms that we started calling 'Riker's Island Lymphadanopathy - They were the first patients anyone was seeing with what would become AIDS.' So he had kept his appointment in Samara...... Back to photography... ;-) B. D. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hemenway Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:41 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Perveez..."I'm back" Steve: A heartwarming shot, "You wouldn't believe how worried they were while you were sick!" Jim, "I would have been an allergist... the patients don't die" Hemenway Steve Barbour wrote: > Perveez, on the right, back to normal after life threatening illness, > out of the ICU... with her sister. Taken, just before discharge.... > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-63807.html > > > M7 Noctilux f1 on portrabw 400 > > yes, yes, yes.... > > thanks for looking ... > > Steve > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information