Luiz, Sorry to hear about your neice. Living thru youth is sometimes difficult. I hope she comes out of the coma soon. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Luiz Felipe <[email protected]> wrote: > Know the series, Bob - like to watch now and then, myself. Only wish the > folks at the hospital would just go home at the end of the day's shooting. > Have a niece in coma at the same hospital due to motorcycle accident, that > may join little fellow any moment. Small irony, all our friends there were > unavailable at first moment - or I'd never taken those pics. I was more > useful making phone calls outside, and just stepped into that scene. > > Waiting is the worst part. > > Cotty, now the anger is under control somewhat, I have to be fair. People > tried to help him. Some tried to make him stand before understanding that it > just was not a good idea, and we made quite a racket - but there was no > staff member capable of doing anything but talk to other staff member. When > I started taking those pics he had no pulse and had stopped breathing for a > while. Our racket clued the news guy of the problem. > > Most brasilian hospitals are plagued by their quality - trauma victims come > from distant places to the one good - and this is really good - hospital of > the big city. Of course there isn't enough hospital for everyone. Worst, > many would be better somewhere else - this place is specialised in trauma > and burns, but gets an avalanche of everything and then trauma. > > Our niece was riding a motorcycle in her home town, some 6 hours away in the > inner part of the state. In that hellhole no one wears helmets. She and her > friend were struck by another motorcycle at high speed, and the friend may > lose a leg. Our niece may not survive and her recovery will include lots of > plastic surgery. Her city has an hospital, usually without medics, almost > always without supplies. City hall keeps a small fleet of shinning station > wagons transformed in ambulances, to cart people to this particular hospital > in Fortaleza. That setup has been a pain of mine for a long time, but I'm > just an old, grumpy fool, in risk of attending yet another burial. The > asshole of a cousin that came with her to the hospital spent 7 hours calling > the wrong persons - when we knew of the accident and took charge there were > more small town politicians and preachers than medics at her side. Yes, > there are lots of medics in that hospital, but today they just were not > enough. Of course, if the right ears get enough noise, things get better. > Until the good ones overwork themselves, and the creatures behind desks > default to doing just their jobs and nothing more than their jobs. > > LF > > > Luiz Felipe escreveu: >> >> Best trauma hospital of this area - in fact, best of the northeast. >> >> Little fellow walks out the secondary access, slow. Gets on his knees. >> Crawls forward some inches. Some try to get him on his feet, he begs to be >> left alone. Then dies. >> >> Suppose this is making the news tomorrow - a news photographer is nearby, >> takes some pics, then gets in a row with the person behind the desk. >> Photographer is angry at the scene, yells about the lack of respect for a >> human being lying in the front of the hospital. The person behind the desk >> is angry, now - about the words used to address him, the death is just >> another death. There were many, there will be more. The police arrives, then >> the little fellow is carried back to the hospital. News photographer takes >> the pic of the person behind the desk. They carry on their lives. No one >> looks at me. All I have in my hands is cell phone. >> >> I know men and woman that work in that hospital. Didn't know the person >> behind the desk today. The men and women I know there are hard working >> people, in an impossible challenge to help the needed. Those men and women >> often work so hard in that hospital they collapse the moment they arrive >> home, until the next fight. They were not nearby. They would not let the >> news photographer offend the creature behind the desk. Not out of respect >> for the creature, but because that creature is beyond help, same as the >> little fellow. There are ones we can still help. >> >> http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/012509102548-00.jpg >> http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/012509102606-00.jpg >> http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/012509102638-00.jpg >> http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/012509102708-00.jpg >> >> LF >> > > -- > Luiz Felipe > luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br > http://techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
