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Famous Persons as Patients

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Health problems don’t affect only so-called ordinary people; famous persons suffer illness, get hurt, occasionally experience physical or psychiatric impairment, and eventually breathe their last, just like the rest of us. Here are some examples: Earvin “Magic” Johnson has the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer disease; Annette Funicello has multiple sclerosis; Bob Dole suffered a right arm injury in World War II; Ray Charles was blind; actress Mary Tyler Moore is diabetic; and Albert Einstein may have had dyslexia.

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Taylor, R.B. (2008). Famous Persons as Patients. In: White Coat Tales. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73080-6_9

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