Karen
Right now, given what Richard Scolyer is dealing with health and personal wise, the fact that any book has been written is amazing (he worked with a writer to get this out). That he felt he was able to tell anything of his story, a successful and revolutionary medical career at the Melanoma Institute of Australia, and his life with a much loved family, and how that was affected by a devastating diagnosis of glioblastoma, an incurable brain cancer, is selfless and important.
I so deeply admire the effort and brilliance of his work, and his willingness to be open about the fears and worries that any cancer diagnosis brings, let alone one that is commonly called incurable.
That he was willing to put himself and his life on the line to test out the methodologies that he and joint director of the Melanoma Institute, Dr Georgina Long, had been working on for Melanoma cancers - and then the effort, input and involvement of the medical community that they reached out to... well these are the people that we, as a species, need to be lauding. These people are more than we deserve.
Originally posted at www.austcrimefiction.org.
Right now, given what Richard Scolyer is dealing with health and personal wise, the fact that any book has been written is amazing (he worked with a writer to get this out). That he felt he was able to tell anything of his story, a successful and revolutionary medical career at the Melanoma Institute of Australia, and his life with a much loved family, and how that was affected by a devastating diagnosis of glioblastoma, an incurable brain cancer, is selfless and important.
I so deeply admire the effort and brilliance of his work, and his willingness to be open about the fears and worries that any cancer diagnosis brings, let alone one that is commonly called incurable.
That he was willing to put himself and his life on the line to test out the methodologies that he and joint director of the Melanoma Institute, Dr Georgina Long, had been working on for Melanoma cancers - and then the effort, input and involvement of the medical community that they reached out to... well these are the people that we, as a species, need to be lauding. These people are more than we deserve.
Originally posted at www.austcrimefiction.org.