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"A TEST OF SURVIVAL" Fiction, stranger than truth What is this ?

 
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gdpawel
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:19 pm    Post subject: "A TEST OF SURVIVAL" Fiction, stranger than truth Reply with quote
"A Test of Survival" by Marnie Schulenburg

"What Tom Clancy did for naval intelligence and submarine design/functionality in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, Marnie Schulenburg does for cancer research in A TEST OF SURVIVAL." (blogspot.com)

When science takes a back seat: public posturing, private bargains, and scandal, set in the cancer industry. Taking on the powers-that-be and their cash-register vision of cancer treatment in America.

http://www.marniesfiction.com/index.html

Read the first three chapters:

http://www.marniesfiction.com/read-chapters.html
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leo
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:00 pm    Post subject: Re: "A TEST OF SURVIVAL" Fiction, stranger than truth Reply with quote
Another product of people's delusions about this. GDPawel, please stop spreading your paranoid ideas in this forum. I've had it. LF
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gdpawel
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:41 am    Post subject: Re: "A TEST OF SURVIVAL" Reply with quote
Not my ideas Leo. It's the ideas of the author. Literary realism (clinical trials, informed consent). What a brilliant way to present the technology of individualized cancer treatment than in the form of a written novel.
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brainman
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:58 am    Post subject: Medical Fiction Reply with quote
Gdpawel, the problem is, as the author notes herself in the subtitle of the book, it is “Medical Fiction.” No one here needs medical fiction. We come here because we need reliable, dependable, and trustworthy information… which, in my humble opinion, you are not giving. So, please, stop posting this type of “information.” It is of no value to us who are facing the real world of cancer.

I have valued may of your other posts. I sympathize with you and your wife's struggle with ovarion cancer. However, threads like this make me question anything and everything you actually do have to offer.
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gdpawel
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:54 pm    Post subject: Fictional Characters, Medical Realism Reply with quote
The only problem with your analogy brainman is that the characters are fictional, the medical aspects are "real." Real-world realism in the face of real-world cancer. The author did a beautiful job of bringing together the "feel-good" stuff that sells on cancer boards (simple diversion from reality) and the "science" of cancer medicine. You may have denial of it being reliable, dependable and trustworthy information.
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brainman
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:13 pm    Post subject: Re: "A TEST OF SURVIVAL" Fiction, stranger than truth Reply with quote
Wrong.... absolutely wrong!!! I have lived with cancer since 1992 and the reality that only 1 in 10 people with my type of cancer live this long. Now, I have faced the reality of recurrence. Those are facts! No denial. No suggarcoating in a fictional story.

Please, move on. This is your warning. Next, as Moderator, I report you to Dr. Leo for possible banning.
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gdpawel
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:31 pm    Post subject: Re: "A TEST OF SURVIVAL" Fiction, stranger than truth Reply with quote
What's your problem with your personal attacks? Is this the way of open dialogue? If you don't like the way you want the game played, you're going to take all the toys home with you? Closing off ideas is really the answer to your problems? No! You've got to deal with it. Those are the facts!
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leo
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:03 am    Post subject: Re: "A TEST OF SURVIVAL" Fiction, stranger than truth Reply with quote
This is it. GDPawel, I am tired of the "information" you are providing on this forum. I have tolerated it for many months, but now that you are attacking other members I have no choice but to ban you from this site. You are no longer welcome here, and your posts will not be missed. You have taken all this too far, trying to convince others that there is some sort of conspiracy that we doctors have to give you IV medications.

So, there you have it. Best of luck to you.

LF
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:03 pm    Post subject: Re: "A TEST OF SURVIVAL" Fiction, stranger than truth Reply with quote
A M E N !!!!!!
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