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"As a reporter, I am accustomed to answers and completion. My stories have a beginning, middle, and an end. MS, on the other hand, is a never-ending middle." Former TV consumer-affairs journalist MacFarlane, writing with her twin sister, here recounts how in 1986, at age 41, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and tried to fight the progressive deterioration imposed by this autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. The book considers the great personal costs of her illness (the loss of her job, the end of her marriage) and the therapies she underwent. The authors also document MacFarlane's experience as the patient of Dr. Irving I. Dardik, whose "wave theory of exercise and recovery" for MS sufferers, guaranteeing full recovery, she attacks as fraud. Despite months of treatment (and Dardik's fee of $100,000), MacFarlane's physical condition worsened. Sporadic improvement was apparently due only to 4-Aminopyridine, an experimental drug prescribed to her by another doctor. Her civil suit against Dardik, filed in both New York and New Jersey, is still pending, and this briskly told story will rouse sympathy and indignation. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Legwork is the immensely moving story of award-winning TV investigative/consumer journalist Ellen Burstein MacFarlane's battle with Multiple Sclerosis and her crusade to help others like herself seduced by a doctor's false promises.
Her experience with this doctor, who eventually loses his license, turns out to be the most important consumer story of her life, and she brings to the chase in a wheelchair and triplegic--her reportorial gift and brave heart.
Co-written with Ellen's twin sister, Legwork includes essays by other family members touched by Ellen's illness and inspired by her goodness and wisdom.
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