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Classic. This brings up an excellent point. ANY doctor who has tried on a snorkel can bill himself as a diving doctor. The prime benefit from this, apart from signing off on a few medical release forms, is the tax writeoff following the 2 week "conference" in Bali. There are some "real" diving doctors. Look for their research and work in the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Journal (UHMS). ---Bernie Woolfrey <woolfrey@oz*.co*.au*> wrote: > > I was present at a short talk entitled "an Introduction to Diving and > Hyperbaric Medicine" presented at a Sydney (Australia) hospital.The > presenter was a "diving doctor" visiting from the USA. The talk was > intended mainly for anaesthetists and other medical staff who may be called > upon to treat DCI cases. > Accompanying the talk were slides, one of which, by way of intro and to > break the ice was a shot of the doctor himself in full (sports) diving > regailia standing in the dirt with fins on and knife drawn (a bit of a > geek, I'm afraid). Immediately following this was a shot of a "tech" diver, > complete with two slung bottles and back-mounted twins. The doctor's talk > when explaining the "techie" was something like this: > > "You may see more and more divers like this. If you look in the dictionary > under 'idiot', you'll find a description of this guy. These guys do all > sorts of calculations and swim around in caves and hope like hell their > calculations work out." > > Now, that may describe SOME of the divers around lately, but what bugs me > was that this doctor was presenting as an expert of sorts, and lecturing to > people who may have to deal with a sick diver. I've seen this a few times > over the years... diving doctors and hyperbaric experts used to tell us > that Nitrox should be banned because we'd all end up toxing, and if we DID > get bent instead of toxed, we'd have used-up all our UPTDs and OTUs, and > couldn't be safely treated in a chamber. > I thought that the attiude of "divers shouldn't be allowed in the water > since they don't understand what they're getting into" of some medicos was > disappearing, but it seems it's alive and well... > > BW. > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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