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...installed--and yet Dawanna could barely muster the strength to go inside. She was literally shaking. She says that as a result of the melanoma trial, she has lost all faith in the medical profession. She no longer takes drugs for her melanoma and hasn't been to a doctor in more than a year. 'I'm not prepared to be let down again,' she told me. But I also spoke to a few patients in the same trial who believe that the vaccine was a gift from God, that it saved their lives...
...touting his experimental vaccine for malignant melanoma, a particularly nasty form of cancer, as if it were a Veg-O-Matic. Thanks to the vaccine, a patient declared onscreen, my cancer is in total remission. Then there was the sales pitch McGee delivered in person. When she and the doctor met with a prospective patient, says Mathias, who worked as his research nurse, he would come on like a used-car salesman: "'We have the best vaccine out there,'" she remembers his saying. "'Two-thirds of my patients have responded to the treatment.'" He was even giving the drug...
...what they got, once they joined McGee's clinical trial, many patients say, was a different story. According to Mathias, more than a third developed severe side effects, including uncontrollable nausea, fevers, rashes, swelling and terrible headaches. Some thought the doctor's behavior was odd. While on the vaccine, one patient, Dawanna Robertson, discovered she was pregnant; she panicked when she recalled the warning on the consent form she had signed: "The potential effects of these drugs on the growing fetus...may include serious birth defects." Yet when she voiced her fears, Robertson says, McGee assured her that the vaccine...
...change of scenery may be just what the doctor ordered for the ailing Harvard baseball team. Having lost six of their last seven games, the Crimson heads to New Haven for two sets of doubleheaders against Yale over the weekend...
Starobin says she knew it was time to take legal action after a low moment in a shopping mall. While signing for a credit card purchase, the salesperson told that her handwriting looked as messy as a doctor’s. Starobin explained that she was a doctor, a doctor of literature, and also an author. The amiable clerk asked if any of her work was published, which led to a discussion of King’s pilfering of her vampire plot...