by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 8, 2017 | Deaths of Famous People
Alan Thicke was best known as psychiatrist Jason Seaver in the ABC television show, "Growing Pains", but was also a popular Canadian actor, songwriter, and television game and talk show host who was nominated for three Emmy Awards as a writer for Barry...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 31, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Carrie Fisher, best known as Princess Leia in Star Wars, was a brilliant writer and producer as well as a productive actress. She appeared in Shampoo, The Blues Brothers, Hannah and Her Sisters, When Harry Met Sally and other movies, and wrote several...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 24, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
This is the story of a beautiful woman who married eight times mostly to older men for fortune and favors, plus a ninth husband who was 27 years younger and gained fame and fortune by marrying her. She wrote several autobiographies, including the 1970 book, How...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 18, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
On September 29, 2016, country music lost one of its all-time greats. Most of you have heard Jean Shepard singing "A Dear John Letter" with Ferlin Husky, the first post-World War II record by a female country singer to become the number one country...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 11, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Heart surgeon Denton Cooley, who died on November 18, 2016 at the age of 96, was better than his peers in just about everything he did. He founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1972, where he and his team performed • almost 120,000 open heart...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 4, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
In 1927, Austrian psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for curing some patients with brain damage from syphilis by infecting them with malaria (Yale J Biol Med, June, 2013;86(2):245–254). He got the idea of causing...
