Jeez!  not one single true to life medical shot, all posed and with terrible models, even some of the surgical, medical instruments are held, in the wrong way. Some of the medical staff looks more like coalminers then phycisians.

Obviously, lagereek must be a doctor... or a spin doctor, at the very least.

Jeez!  not one single true to life medical shot, all posed and with terrible models,

Well, congratulations if you can get genuine medical staff to sign MRs.
For the rest, welcome to the wacky world of stock photos.

Personally I think the iStock selection are far better than the Getty one's, but then again I always think that, and then I always think that it's deliberate to do so.

I'm not sure you'd be able to sell a RF medical photo with anything other than 'posed' models because the doctors over here have a legal obligation to respect patient confidentiality and I believe in this instant (like some other legal technicalities) it's not something the patient is able to legally waive themselves. Might be different in other countries of course.

As for not being true to life, a couple are bad but the others seem alright and having been through a few of the procedures in the photos myself I can say that some are spot on. As someone who has shot stock for most of his life I'm surprised you're shocked that the shots may be staged, I'd hazard a guess that 95% + of all RF photos on all agencies macro and micro are staged in some way or another.

You could get a doctor to pose with a model, but like any other profession, as the images can be used or altered in practically any way, why would they agree to that?

Last year my youngest had a minor op, I got talking to the staff and they let me take a few generic photos to use as backdrops, they said the hospital is quite often hired for photo and film shoots but none of the staff are allowed to be used in any of the shots.

I was a medical photographer for 10 years.  Alamy have more realistic photos, like B3298A and A8JFR7.

I have lost count on how many times I have photographed everything from heart-transplants, autopsies, brain-surgery, the lot, I know the real thing. I have also been a qualified veternary surgeon for over 25 years and yes, instruments are held in the same way, to avoid them from falling, among others.

Ofcourse I have always been a full time photographer but it does help to be medically trained, even if it concerns animals.

Sean is right though, I bet they sell but that wasnt my point here and yes the IS shots are better then Gettys.

This is not anything against Getty/IS, who cares really? but it does show there are some fields where stock simply cant get inside the doors.

I totally am envisioning you as the most interesting man in the world.   

Quote from: lagereek on February 28, 2012, 17:37

I have lost count on how many times I have photographed everything from heart-transplants, autopsies, brain-surgery, the lot, I know the real thing. I have also been a qualified veternary surgeon for over 25 years and yes, instruments are held in the same way, to avoid them from falling, among others.

Ofcourse I have always been a full time photographer but it does help to be medically trained, even if it concerns animals.

Sean is right though, I bet they sell but that wasnt my point here and yes the IS shots are better then Gettys.

This is not anything against Getty/IS, who cares really? but it does show there are some fields where stock simply cant get inside the doors.

I totally am envisioning you as the most interesting man in the world.  

Stay thirsty my friends!

  All I have ever had to pay in return is a copy of the pictures for their advertising,

I still have to do a double take when I read this, then remember the US isn't the UK!

Quote from: ShadySue on February 28, 2012, 18:43

Quote from: lisafx on February 28, 2012, 18:21

  All I have ever had to pay in return is a copy of the pictures for their advertising,

I still have to do a double take when I read this, then remember the US isn't the UK!

... or more importantly __ Scotland.

Do doctors advertise in England?

Quote from: scottdunlap on February 28, 2012, 17:47

Quote from: lagereek on February 28, 2012, 17:37

I have lost count on how many times I have photographed everything from heart-transplants, autopsies, brain-surgery, the lot, I know the real thing. I have also been a qualified veternary surgeon for over 25 years and yes, instruments are held in the same way, to avoid them from falling, among others.

Ofcourse I have always been a full time photographer but it does help to be medically trained, even if it concerns animals.

Sean is right though, I bet they sell but that wasnt my point here and yes the IS shots are better then Gettys.

This is not anything against Getty/IS, who cares really? but it does show there are some fields where stock simply cant get inside the doors.

I totally am envisioning you as the most interesting man in the world.  

Stay thirsty my friends!

  thanks for the laugh. Had a craptastic day and this made me LOL.

Oh, I see what you mean.  For you in the UK, medicine is treated as a human right, where here in the US it's a for profit business. 

Something fundamentally wrong about insurance companies and doctors getting rich off the backs of sick people, who often go broke paying medical bills.  But I guess that's veering pretty wildly off topic

Isn't that true for just about anything? For instance the most popular sports in the states are those with enough breaks for commercials. I've heard a TV commercial during superbowl costs 3 mil/s and advertisers are standing in line to pay sky high amounts of money. OTOH sports like football (you call it soccer) are not popular at all, since there are no breaks, just halftime and that's it. No room for business and it looks like business dictates what's popular in sports and what's not. Or to go back to what's a bit less off topic, what's humane, moral etc and what's not.

Oh, I see what you mean.  For you in the UK, medicine is treated as a human right, where here in the US it's a for profit business.  

Something fundamentally wrong about insurance companies and doctors getting rich off the backs of sick people, who often go broke paying medical bills.  But I guess that's veering pretty wildly off topic

I used to be a big fan of the NHS but there are hospitals I would dread going in to now.  The old wards used to be good, the nurses could see all the patients.  Now there's a lot of new hospitals designed so that the nurses can't see the patients from their station.  They have also given the nurses a lot more paperwork and the job doesn't attract the caliber of people it used to.  Patients have a button to call a nurse but if they're confused or can't reach it, that's useless.  When a relative was recently in hospital, I was shocked how standards have changed.  There's still some very good nurses but if a patient can't get their attention, they are in for a bad time.  The food in one hospital was disgusting, perhaps one of the reasons why my relative lost a lot of weight.  I thing it's disgraceful that they are giving food to sick people that healthy people would find inedible.

Now I would like to see the NHS being used just for the poorest in society.  If the majority of people paid medical insurance, I think standards would have to be much higher.  It wont happen though, any government that privatised most of the NHS would lose the next election and it would be re-nationalised.