DYING IN VEIN
 READERS COMMENTS
 


Hazen, MD, Harvard University ...

Dying in Vein recognizes with unparalleled clarity, the harsh realities of the oft-ignored corporate aspects of medicine and how they, like corporate sectors everywhere, often give profit precedence over healthcare. Overall, it is a scarring portrait of life and resilience that is at once an exploration of the tragic consequences of unchecked corporate greed as well as a testimony to the tenacity of those innocent souls most directly victimized by its voracious appetite for profits.


Donald Francis, MD, former Assisant Director of the Division of Viral Diseases, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention ...

Dying in Vein provides ... messages to all who view its contents. It's a message that we should all record and remember. Such a disaster should never happen again.


Garth McMurry, Amazon Review …

Educational and Powerful. This book sheds a light on the dark horror of a preventable disaster.


Fabrice N. Vincent, Esq. Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, San Francisco, CA

This book is a testament to the great strength and terrible suffering of so many innocent hemophiliacs victimized by the outrageous conduct that caused so many to be unfairly infected with HIV and HCV. Your work is extraordinarily powerful and moving and is the most popular work in our firm's main reception area, where we display it proudly.

Your special work and the dedication of others like you promise that the memory of those who have passed away already will endure forever. God bless you and all of those infected and all those who continue to stand up to this terrible injustice, probably the worst wrongdoing in the history of the pharmaceutical industry and one that will continue to kill victims today and tomorrow and beyond. Thank you for your strength, vision and solidarity.


Steve Sherman, Keene Sentinel …

Milbouer has related the heart-breaking stories of these people with humane professionalism to match the depth of MacKay’s photographs. Bouchard’s book design knits the parts into a moving whole. Readers will see extraordinary survival spirit in those who could be our neighbors.


Claudette Durocher, Editorial Page Editor, The Nashua Telegraph …

It's also an indictment of federal bureaucrats who could have curbed the toll of human misery these tainted blood products created had they taken actions when concerns about them first arose. Instead they gave too much leeway to the pharmaceutical industry and too little concern to the well being of those they were empowered and directed to protect.


Writer’s Notes Magazine …

Dying in Vein, MacKay and Milbouer construct a testament in pictures and words to the legacy of ignorance and greed and the terrible personal cost for the innocent. (www.writersnotes.com)

 
Kathy Lindsley, Rochester Institute of Technology, The University Magazine ...

Dying in Vein is … a stunning book that tells the stories of some of the people affected by what has been called the "hemophilia holocaust."


Chris Haley, reader from Syracuse, New York …

Wow. It punched a lot of buttons. Sad, mad, upset, shocked, heartsick. I am sure that I had read little bits and parts of the story in the news, but I had no appreciation for what was going on with drug companies and their cozy relationship with our government.


Jim Kerber, infected hemophiliac, Bellevue, Nebraska …

You touched our hearts and brought tears to our eyes. You did a wonderful job.


Alina Oswald, Art and Understanding Magazine …

I really loved it. You did a wonderful job. A product of work, friendship and love.


Gail Maloney, Photographer, Hollis New Hampshire …

I enjoyed your book and I read it twice. I had tears in my eyes both times I read it. A family friend of ours also lost his life to tainted blood in the exact manner as your husband. You’re a brave lady to publish the book and I am so glad the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts gave you the opportunity.