On 2012-12-10 18:52, BL BLAZY wrote:
Not all patients photographed are necessarily treatable or under treatment. Photos are also made because the patients untreatable condition is rarely seen. As a specialty medical photographer working in a very busy well known international hospital/clinic I did photograph people in situations where their horrific health condition put their lives in immediate danger. Most complicated cases photographed were seen by several specialties and once the patient was stable enough, the photographer is called in, just before any further medical treatment. One example would be a newborn with multiple issues in giant omphalocele, another a rare complication from a cosmetic surgery done elsewhere, or infectious disease out of control.
I see two things here. First, and perhaps most important, the patients you saw were already receiving expert care. Thus there wasn't anything you could do to directly aid them beyond what was already being done. Second, you were working for the betterment of medicine as a whole -- these photos were for use in teaching and research, among other things, right? That's clearly a good cause.
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