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William Goodson

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William Goodson has dedicated his career to improving the care of women with breast cancer. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he is a surgeon and the author of IT'S YOUR BODY…ASK!, a guide to help women choose their own treatment for breast cancer. He has been professor of surgery and chairman of the Medical School curriculum committee at the University of California, author of over 100 scientific articles, and recipient of the Compassionate Caring Award from the Institute for Health and Healing in San Francisco. This is his first novel. ...more

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

William Goodson I don't have a favorite couple since I tend to focus on the interaction of a man and a woman (or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman), not on the …moreI don't have a favorite couple since I tend to focus on the interaction of a man and a woman (or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman), not on the couple itself. In THE BLUE EYED GIRL, David is her husband, but he's important for how she relates to him rather than as half of a couple.
The book that I always fall back on is FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS which is where I learned the word "ciao." They were not a couple per se, but they interacted a lot. THE PRINCE OF TIDES again is not so much a couple as their interaction. I like the interaction in GONE GIRL but I'd never think of them as a couple. It was NOT being a couple that created the story.(less)

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

William Goodson I think I have a different challenge. Working full time, my challenge is to remember the thoughts that fleet through my mind in the middle of other ta…moreI think I have a different challenge. Working full time, my challenge is to remember the thoughts that fleet through my mind in the middle of other tasks. I always seem to have a backlog of ideas. What is much more difficult is finding words for characters. I find it easiest to create credible dialog if I have a conversation with an imaginary person and listen to what I've said. Often I will write a dialog and then read it quickly. My mind will recognize were I've gotten stilted. I also use the text-to-speech feature on my laptop.(less)

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	The Blue Eyed Girl 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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PERVERSITY DENIES DATE RAPE STATISTICS

perversely for blog Denying date rape statistic isolates and silences the victim, and facilitates plausible denial by the rapist.

I recently postulated in my blog that, since one-in-five college women has been raped by graduation, a realistic expectation is that one out of every five women a college senior asks on a date will have been raped. The on line response surprised me.

I was accused of exaggerat

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