Synopsis "Famous Doctors and Famous Patients: Lives in Jeopardy?"
Famous Doctors and Famous Patients: Lives in Jeopardy? examines well-known doctors who treated celebrities and describes thesuccesses and failures of patients' treatments. Featuring well-known public figures such as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, MarilynMonroe, Frank Sinatra, Truman Capote, Cecil B. DeMille, John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Billy Wilder, TennesseeWilliams, Dan Aykroyd, Johnny Depp, Cary Grant, and Susan Sarandon-descriptions of each patient show the impact of treatmenton patients' lives, for better or worse. Often the mind-altering chemicals that promised patients' relief imposed problems instead. Indocumenting and consolidating prominent historical medical case studies, Famous Doctors and Famous Patients enables readers tomake better choices for their own medical care.
