"Pure Genius" A Bunker Hill Christmas (TV Episode 2016) Poster

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Their dealings with the FDA are not realistic.
drbits15 December 2016
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The incidents mentioned in the Storyline supplied by the network are less interesting than this incident which is not mentioned:

James Bell (the owner of Bunker Hill) has a rare prion-based disease and his life expectancy is a few months. He develops a potential treatment and finds a patient with an advanced form of the same disease. A short period of animal testing has been performed, but it is not enough to convince the FDA representative to allow the treatment on a human. She says that at least a year of animal testing would be required (James Bell would be dead by then).

The FDA representative happens to be Dr. Wallace's wife. That would not be allowed in the real world, because of conflict of interest restrictions (it does enable a fight between Dr. Wallace and his wife). In this case, fast-track approval would normally be given for two reasons. First, the patient has less than one month to live, so only about one month of animal testing would be required (they had not performed a full month of testing). Second, this is what is known as an "Orphan disease," a disease that is rare enough that the normal three-year testing cycle (including over a year of animal testing) is reduced to under a year total. The justification for fast-track approval of treatments for orphan diseases is that normal testing requirements are too costly for rare diseases.
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It's a Wonderful Life, but not this show
d.rust27 December 2017
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And yet another craptastic outing with control freak narcissist James Bell who gets everything he wants by manipulation, bribery and sheer bullying. Yeah, Karma is a bitch, and her name is GSS, which is Karma's way of saying to Bell, hey DICK, you act like this in life, it gets real short.

Bell watches some Youtube of a leukemia sufferer who makes everyone else suffer by playing really bad guitar and singing off-key. Her cloying personality makes her completely unlikeable and, like Bell, tends to manipulate everyone around her, including Doc Broc.

Meanwhile, an SJW Lawyer type is suffering from seizures and her illness is impeding her from helping a mentally ill man who is intent on self mutilation because he thinks he's a girl and has since he was six years old. Of course, Bullcrap Heap is located in Fran Sansicko, so this kind of crap goes on all the time. Doc Dub (as in Dubya) thinks she is awesome, because not only is she a successful woman, but she's black as well. Bell, in his psychosis, sez the team has to fix her because, well, Christmas and all. She's going to have clients to represent because Georgie Boy "Weeping" Sores is his buddy, and he funds soy boys who dress up in black, aka "AntifaGS".

Bell wants to go to his first concert because, like him and his mom sat around the TV and couldn't agree on watching shows, never watching Charlie's Angels. So, the people at Bullcrap Heap never lose a patient on camera, and everyone watches in slow motion the last minute and a half of Zuzu's Petals & Angels Get Wings When Bells Ring.

Zero out of Ten.
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