I know, did people gloss over "organ failure." This woman is still suffering physically. Her body is fighting to save or get rid of organs, probably the liver and/or kidneys. I don't think she is currently applying for employment.

That and she's still recovering from the effects of the treatment... Is it possible that she could end up permanently disabled and unable to work at all? I hope not.

As it should be. I hope she gets, and I think this is the technical term, a fuckton. I mean, it does have to go through the courts, but from the beginning it sounded like the hospital's handling of the early cases was negligent. (You know, based partially on the fact that they sent the first guy with ebola back home.)

Yeah, the lack of consent and using her as a PR pawn is really fucking disturbing. She will never be able to work again as a nurse. It's not fair.

Yeah, I suspect the emotional distress part of her case is going to be huge, because there are a ton of angles to work with there - the horror of knowing you have a disease we don't understand perfectly and can't treat well, the stigma of being publicly identified as having a very feared disease, the fact that she's…

Shame on the doctor for RXing something so dangerous for a few blemishes. I'm very sorry this happened to you! Accutane was pretty far from innocuous, as it is a gigantic teratogen (fetus mutilation sounds better that way) and was known to cause horrible side effects in the humans who ingested it on purpose.

I remember reading that her family eventually "outed" themselves to the media because they wanted to have some say in the narrative. Given this information, that makes more sense.

On Gawker, it says that the video of her in the hospital was recorded without her consent and that they (the hospital) released her information despite her requests not to. :o(

Well, yeah, I think that's to be expected. It sounds like there's some good evidence her employer was negligent, and she had to deal with weeks of hospitalization, the emotional distress that comes with knowing you might die, and what sound like long term consequences to her health.

You see, you're assuming that I think all hippies are smug. In your rush to lecture me about generalization, did you stop and consider that maybe there are a subset of hippies who are, in fact, smug, and that was what I was referring to? Or did that not cross your mind when you saw an opportunity to lecture somebody…

Those people are heartless stupid fuckwits but we all know one. If someone tells me my loved one may have lived by drinking fucking juice from some obscure Asian fruit or cannabis oil, they get both barrels from me. I am afraid such basic ingredients doesn't work against genetic cell mutations. Hence we have to use…

I grew up around smug hippies and the incidence of this happening really dropped off after one or two of them got cancer, tried the miracle alternative treatments, and died anyway.

My personal favorite: "Be a vegan and you won't get cancer!"

There's nothing worse than that stale kidney odor.

I just want to take an opportunity to awkwardly plug the upcoming PBS documentary on cancer that's based on this excellent book.

Seconding. When my dad got sick, so many family members chimed in with 'suggestions' ranging from macrobiotic diets to never, ever do chemo, remember what happened to M? (M was a family friend who had a specific, extremely nasty type of leukemia, which AFAIK only had one effective chemo regimen. She was allergic to…

So my internal organs are the same as a fridge? Seems legit.

My friend has cancer. No wonder he's a fun guy.

If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus

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