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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
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For those that think they already know the answers...,
This review is from: Living Proof (Hardcover)
Cancer. Few words conjure up as much emotion or such fervent reaction as this one. 'Living Proof' is brilliantly written and accurately presents MGT's personal experience of facing in his own body, one of the worst forms of incurable cancer. Read of his emotions, his reactions and those of other people around him, from close friends to 'renowned experts'. He is clear and concise, and given the nature of the subject and the challenges it presents to him (life or death) about as unbiased as it is possible to be. I confess to being biased but I've never read such a well-documented account of someone who has access to the very best resources and contacts and who records his journey toward making an immense decision about which treatment to choose in such an entertaining way. Cancer Research is now one of the world's largest employers and if everyone involved with it read this account, I doubt that we would continue to lose so many loved ones to a disease that breeds ignorance with such spellbinding effect. If you think you already know all the answers then read this book, regardless of whether you are 'for or against' conventional treatment. I'm going to give away a free copy to anyone I meet who is facing this disease. I hate cancer but not nearly as much as I hate ignorance.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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A Valuable Resource ! Thank You M. Gearin-Tosh.,
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This review is from: Living Proof (Hardcover)
It was by coincidence I happened upon this wonderful book, if you believe in coincidences. The style and method of presentation of this dreadful subject of cancer was superb. To gain the perspective in writing of a person with documented access and audience to the most well respected oncology experts in the world was wonderful. I was diagnosed with the same disease as the author had and I had taken similar steps towards health. I experienced many of the same symptoms, many of the same dilibitating conversations on the rush to treatment put out by the traditional medical community. The author relied heavily on others to help him in his daily regime. In that he is fortunate. It was a stunning experience to me to find how many previous people in my life were suddenly unavailable. Suggestion: Do not ever be single and and diagnosed with cancer. I congratulate and salute M. Gearin-Tosh for publishing an easily read book on a difficult subject. The book draws the reader to the next chapter, and on and on. His list of references is great. Check with the public library for a copy of the book (where I found mine). This is not an average book by any stretch, I am buying a copy even after having read it. My large container of coffee is cooking on the stove Mr. Gearin-Tosh. Perhaps we can compare notes re oncology or better yet life in a few years over a cup of tea.
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
How To Save Your Life,
By Peter Hay (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Living Proof (Hardcover)
In the debates about education we seldom hear about the primary uses of thinking. Not just figuring and scheming how to get or stay ahead, not abstract philosophical or practical problem-solving, but as tools for survival.When, almost a decade ago, Michael Gearin-Tosh received news that he had advanced myeloma, he faced two stark choices: begin chemotherapy at once or die in a few months. As a professor of literature at Oxford University, Gearin-Tosh was accustomed to giving much less weighty matters a great deal of thought, so he hesitated. He consulted other opinions, one of whom said that any of the radical therapies would kill him. At most he would have an extra couple of years, and miserable ones at that. After a great deal of thinking, using linguistic and etymological analysis on each shade of meaning used by doctors and others, and doing a great deal of research into unfamiliar areas, Gearin-Tosh decided against chemotherapy and undertook various alternative therapies. Some of these have been deplored by many in the medical profession and hardly any of them would have been recommended by them. Mr Gearin-Tosh has not been cured, but he is very much alive today. He is "Living Proof" of how to take charge of one's own life, instead of surrendering it helplessly to experts. The most chilling moment of this enormously readable and gripping book comes when the patient has explored a range of unconventional therapies and goes to consult Sir David Weatherall, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, and one of the most eminent medical authorities in the world. He asks the expert whether he thought him mad for not following medical advice, and Sir David pauses - to think. Finally he says: "What you must understand, Mr Gearin-Tosh, is that we know so little about how the body works." The book is a triumph of the mind not over the body but for the body. It never preaches or makes any claims for one particular method over another. Gearin-Tosh simply describes what happened, and the process of thinking that made him into a living proof. He carefully avoids telling you, if you have been diagnosed with cancer, what to do. But he teaches you to think for yourself so that you would have a chance to save your life. And that is all that a great teacher can do.
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