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   On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:26:53 -0700 (PDT), Raymond    
   wrote:   
      
   >Quackery   
      
   Like in the case of Penelope Dingle:   
      
      
   Penelope Dingle's Letters To Francine Scrayen   
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   Saturdays at 12.30 pm, on ABC1   
   11/07/2011   
      
   WITHOUT PREJUDICE I WRITE YOU THIS LETTER   
      
      
   November 29 2004   
      
   Dear Francine   
      
   This is Penelope Brown writing.   
      
   As you can see from the date below, the following letter was written   
   some time ago. I have waited to see if you would contact me. But I have   
   waited in vain. So be it.   
      
      
   March 27 2004   
      
   Dear Francine   
      
   This is a letter about accountability and responsibility. Things that   
   are missing altogether in your attitude towards to me. The tone of your   
   card makes this quite clear. You make no reference to the matter that   
   you are accountable as a professional for the fact that your treatment   
   protocol failed after you told me you could cure me.   
      
   I am sincerely disappointed that three quarters of your card is spent   
   justifying why I have heard nothing from you. And I am astounded that   
   you think I may be interested in hearing that you were upset with me. I   
   quote: “It was really upsetting to me to hear you have been upset with   
   me as much as you are, because…”   
      
   What happened during the 7 months you treated me for cancer is very   
   serious.   
      
   You appear to feel excused from making any effort towards me. You write:   
   "…so for me it would all depend on you if there was any future contact.   
   And this is still the way I feel about it today.”   
      
   And do not think that these next lines absolve you.   
   “I wish you all the best in the world, and I am really sorry I haven’t   
   been able to give you that.”   
      
   You write – “First of all it is so good to hear you are doing well!”   
   As you have made no effort to find out the truth for yourself, and as I   
   am the only source of information that is reliable, it is time you were   
   apprised of the facts.   
      
   Perhaps, you may then even contemplate apologising.   
      
   Fact   
   My prognosis is very poor. Statistically, I am not expected to live more   
   than 2 – 4 years. With the sort of metastatic spread I had during your   
   treatment, and the fact that more lymphs were affected, I am not   
   expected to survive for long.   
      
   Fact   
   The MRI scan taken in April 2003 was read accurately by the surgeon   
   Cameron Platell, and the consulting GP.   
   It was read inaccurately by you.   
   The lymphs you informed me were simply overworked were already   
   cancerous. The ovary you informed me was swollen due to another cyst was   
   also cancerous. At this point, my uterus and second ovary were healthy   
   and unaffected. I presume you remember - you examined the scans   
   yourself.   
      
   Fact   
   I have had to have a total hysterectomy. You know this because I   
   informed you during one of the conversations we had while I was in   
   hospital, although your card makes no mention of it.   
   I am now going through early onset menopause.   
   I can never bear children.   
   You are responsible for this outcome.   
   Considering the fact that my original treatment with you was aimed at   
   getting me a pregnancy, and taking into account your assurances that I   
   would fall pregnant and have a healthy child after my cancer was cured,   
   this is all the more grievous and shocking.   
      
   Fact   
   During the 7 months you treated me exclusively, the tumour grew in size   
   to 10cms long and 8 cms wide and my uterus, second ovary and more lymphs   
   became cancerous. Because of the size of the tumour, it was no longer   
   possible for the surgeon to perform a complete resection. As a result, I   
   have a margin at the sacral bone of only 1mm, and very close margins in   
   the pelvis. In cases like mine, there is a 70% - 80% likelihood that   
   metastatic spread will reoccur.   
      
   Fact   
   In the end, the tumour completely blocked my bowel.   
   Two litres of faecal matter had built up, causing that area of my bowel   
   to stretch to 3 times its normal size. The surgeon said it was at   
   breaking point like a big “balloon”.   
      
   Fact   
   Had I performed the enema you instructed me to do, the surgeon told me   
   it would have split my bowel. Had this happened, in my weakened state it   
   would have been unlikely I could have survived the massive infection   
   that would have ensued.   
   The surgeon said “if your bowel had split, you would have died. I could   
   not have saved you.”   
   I’d like you to ponder this.   
      
   Fact   
   Had I waited another 48 hours as you instructed me, for the remedy to   
   work and “for the stop to go,” I would have died. The surgeon said I   
   could not have survived another 48 hours, which means I would have died   
   on Monday October 13, 2003.   
   Ponder on this too.   
      
   Fact   
   Due to my severely weakened state and huge weight loss, it was not known   
   if surgery was still possible.I am extremely lucky it was.   
      
   Fact   
   When I was admitted to hospital, the surgeon told me I was severely   
   dehydrated and severely malnourished and that I was already dying of   
   malnutrition.   
   I religiously followed your nutritional protocol and your advice about   
   water intake.   
   I weighed, once the fecal matter was removed, just 38 kilograms.   
   When you saw me several days before I admitted myself to hospital, I   
   said, ‘Look at me, I’m just skin and bones.’   
   Your only remark was, ‘you’ll put it all back on again.’   
      
   Fact   
   The surgeon had to ‘wash’ out the fecal matter while I was on the table   
   during the operation. Due to this, there was a risk of infection and due   
   to the massive surgery, a high risk of postoperative complications. I   
   have been informed I am extremely lucky there weren’t. Had there been,   
   my recovery would have been extremely slow.   
      
   Fact   
   The surgery was so massive and my condition so weakened I was told my   
   convalescence would take one year.   
      
   Fact   
   I am very lucky that the surgeon was able to save my anus, and that I am   
   not on a permanent colostomy bag. As it is, because the tumour had   
   grown, he had to remove the ‘reservoir’ in my bowl, and this means I do   
   not have complete control of my excretory functions. In other words, I   
   regularly defecate into my underwear. It will take five years before   
   this condition is rectified.   
   I am very lucky the surgeon did not have to remove my bladder, and that   
   I do not have a permanent urostomy.   
   I am very lucky my vagina was not cancerous.   
   All these organs were situated close by to the spread, and it was   
   expected they too would be affected.   
   I understood these things were likely as they prepped me for my   
   operation, and had no way of knowing until I awoke from surgery, whether   
   or not I may be permanently disabled.   
      
   Fact   
   The pain I endured for 5 months was not mostly “between my ears” as you   
   regularly informed me.   
   I have since learned it is well known medically that rectal cancer is   
      
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