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Title: There's No Place Like Hope: A Guide to Beating Cancer in Mind-Sized Bites: A Book of Hope, Help, and Inspiration for Cancer Patients and Their Families by Vickie Girard, Dan Zadra ISBN: 1-888387-41-6 Publisher: Compendium Inc Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: There is No Place Like Hope..........
Comment: Vickie Girard has written a wonderful, instructional book, which will become a tremendous asset for all of us who are fighting cancer (myself included). Her analogies and anecdotes are well put and well received. Vickie has been challenged in every way-from the terror of a cancer diagnosis, to life-and-death insurance issues and everything in between! What is most remarkable is that she has decided to tell her story with the hope that she will help others.
However, while reading "There is No Place Like Hope," I could not help but to conclude that it is, in large part, a marketing tool designed to attract patients to Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). Vickie was treated at one of the organization's hospitals. While I appreciate Vickie's opinions regarding CTCA, I question her statement indicating that this organization attracts and employs the "best and the brightest" in cancer care.
I was treated for breast cancer at a CTCA hospital. Since the conclusion of my treatment at CTCA more than 10 years ago, I have been re-diagnosed with breast cancer twice. In the labyrinth of hospitals, clinics and physicians I have encountered during my own treatment odyssey, I strongly believe that the best and the brightest cancer experts are located in research hospitals where there is an all-out commitment to cutting-edge, new cancer therapies. Oncology physicians at these centers do not merely read about and indicate treatment protocols for their patients, they are in the laboratories developing and perfecting them. These physicians are educated at the best-known colleges and universities worldwide. They teach, lecture and are actively and aggressively attempting to make a difference in the lives of people victimized by cancer. I am not sure that this is part of CTCA's approach to cancer treatment.
Vickie's story is remarkable and should be shared with everyone - not just those touched by cancer. She is an inspiration to all people, everywhere. My advice to readers of Vickie Girard's book is to look beyond the marketing ploys of CTCA and revel in the wisdom, humor and real-life coping strategies which Vickie so thoughtfully and eloquently puts into words.....
Rating: 4
Summary: Lots of encouragement in a small package!
Comment: Vickie Girard's ability to share her cancer experiences with optimism and humor will inspire anyone who has cancer. There's No Place Like Hope is written in very short sections, making it easy to read a little at a time. I highly recommend this book, not only for people who have cancer, but for their families and health providers as well. The only drawback is her bias toward one health care organization. However, other health care providers would do well to emulate what the author liked about that one. Patricia Anderson, RN, MN, Author: Breast Cancer: A Patient Guide
Rating: 3
Summary: I have nothing to prove
Comment: listen, I'd like to beleive in this as much as anyone else, but this book will not change anything. Cancer is not evil, it just is, just like the universe itself, and it won't accomodate humanity for it's own sake. You simply cannot appeal to hope in a world where hope doesn't exist. Now you could find every possible extraneous reason why I would say something like this, and you could be right on every account, but it's horribly compelling
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