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Well, in the spirit of my KILL MARV posting, I'm gonna
hit Claremont and Guice this time.  Actually, maybe I should
criticize Ann Nocenti, who as editor should have caught 
the errors.

Guice seems to be incapable of deciding, over the first
6 pages, whether or not Danielle is wearing her hair
in braids.  And with her hands that cold, I doubt she's
the one who's braiding and unbraiding.  Not to mention if she
dumps her packages in front of Pat's gang of kids in the mall,
where does she get the new clothes she's wearing when she
receives the radio transmission?

(As an aside, I really liked Dani with short hair!)

Claremont's error is more annoying.  He, too, is not paid to be
stupid, or to skip his research.  He manages to confuse
'insulin shock' with 'diabetic coma', two absolutely
opposing conditions.
If Danielle lived with the Roberts family for more than 24 hours
she would have known that Pat was a diabetic.  She then would
have had more information about his condition.
Insulin shock, or hypoglycemia, results when a diabetic patient
does not eat enough to balance the insulin levels in his blood.
This is a rapid-onset condition that is easily offset by giving
sugar to the patient (like in o.j.).  Diabetic coma results when
not enough insulin is in the bloodstream.  It requires massive
amounts of fluid and insulin therapy in a hospital.
If Pat's body used up its insulin during the night, he was in a
diabetic coma; if he 'went into insulin shock' as Death says
(and she should know), he needed not insulin, but calories. 

I'm not saying this is an uncommon error (I have a hard time
keeping it straight myself, and I took an emergency medicine
class!) BUT it shouldn't be perpetrated in print, because people
believe what they read, and treat diabetics accordingly.

Ellen Eades
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