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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
May 16, 2013
People, I am going to do a little flip over here. I know you’ll probably boil me in verbal hot oil but genius lies in knowing when to stop. Yesterday, I wrote that Angelina Jolie was making a statement of high intent and signposting hope for millions of breast cancer patients. But on hearing she is now taking out her ovaries gets me thinking, we all have faulty genes, there has to be a limit to your common sense before it turns into paranoia.
Now, the message to the world is gut your body to save it. I am not so sure this is healthy but I would be dishonest if I didn’t feel less enthusiastic about all this than I did yesterday. To me it is coming off a bit like bulimia or something, a bit nutty.
Sorry, you can take your own stand but the wall against a disease can only be so high and there is so much out there by way if sickness that you begin to wonder if you can actually fight the inevitable. Think of the fact that medical science in all these years has empirical cures for only 26 diseases. Sobering thought.
As far as Ms Jolie is concerned she can do as she pleases…it is her body, her decision. But I don’t want to applaud any more. Feel deflated.
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
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