PURPOSE
Most troubling, though,
I found that his doctors
were not at all interested in
learning about the cuttingedge treatments I found for
him—some were nutritional,
others weren’t. When he
had a recurrence of the
tumor ten years later, his
suture line wouldn’t heal.
It was then that I found
a treatment that literally
saved his life.
This is one way people use Facebook to disseminate information that is important to them—and
to others. I use Facebook a bit differently, but with
a similar result. My book, HONEST MEDICINE: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for
Life-Threatening Diseases, emerged from my personal experience of helping my husband, who was
diagnosed in 1990, at the age of 40 with a cancerous brain tumor. He survived twelve years beyond
his doctors’ predictions for him.
Most troubling, though, I found that his doctors
were not at all interested in learning about the
cutting-edge treatments I found for him—some
were nutritional, others weren’t. When he had a
recurrence of the tumor ten years later, his suture
line wouldn’t heal. It was then that I found a treatment that literally saved his life. Again, his doctors
couldn’t have been less interested. I resolved to
write a book about treatments for life-threatening conditions that doctors weren’t interested in
learning about. I knew that patients would be hungering for this information, so it would be my job to
share it as widely as possible.
HONEST MEDICINE is the result of this quest. It is my
life’s mission to share, not only these treatments
with patients who need them, but also the message that patients need to do their own research,
because doctors often will not have lifesaving an-
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swers. And Facebook, along with hundreds of radio
interviews, has kept my book and its messages in
the public’s eye for five years. Largely because of
my involvement on Facebook, I am regarded as a
patient advocate with important information to
share.
Ironically, I do NOT openly plug my book on Facebook. I share other people’s important Facebook
postings, priding myself on being able to separate
the wheat from the chaff—i.e., the good information online from the bad. I’m constantly on the
lookout for postings to share that I consider noteworthy. By doing this, lots of people learn about
me, my book and my mission. I also share lots of
postings I find online on both of my Facebook pages—especially about the bad behavior of pharmaceutical companies, and about new treatments my
friends and followers (and many doctors) won’t
know about.
In addition, I share links to radio shows I’ve appeared on to promote my book. “Isn’t that blatant
self-promotion?” you might ask? Not if the topic
being discussed will be of special interest to my
friends and followers, as well as to people in Facebook groups in which I am active.
Ironically, I do NOT openly
plug my book on Facebook.
I share other people’s
important Facebook
postings, priding myself on
being able to separate the
wheat from the chaff—i.e.,
the good information online
from the bad. I’m constantly
on the lookout for postings
to share that I consider
noteworthy. By doing
this, lots of people learn
about me, my book and my
mission.