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Marilyn Monroe Was More Mentally Ill Than We Knew

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Revelations from a new biography, T In 1961, Marianne Kris, the psychoanalyst treating Marilyn Monroe, was convinced that her famous patient was on the verge of suicide. So she did what most psychiatrists at the time would have done: She committed Monroe to a mental institution. Knowing the star would never go to a psychiatric hospital on her own— Monroe was terrified of sanitariums because her mother lived in one for most of her life and her grandmother had died in one— Kris told Monroe that she was going to a private hospital for some "rest and relaxation."

Are you ready to friend your doctor on Facebook?

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When we talk about the next generation of health care, we tend to focus on the issues being bandied about in Washington right now. Will coverage be universal and deliver good care to the poor, the rich, and those in the middle? Will it be publicly funded, privatized or some combination of the two?…

Pushing Back: Has the natural childbirth movement gone too far?

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I'm going to have a VBAC," Annie said, "if it's the last thing I do."

We were sitting in a prenatal yoga class in an unnamed facility in an unnamed Brooklyn neighborhood (one people assume they…

User Post: 8 Ways To Make Your Physician a Better Doc ...

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... Which will make YOU a better patient!

-Susan Crandell, BettyConfidential.com On House, a team of gifted specialists spends…