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Blog Entries by Dr. Jon LaPook from 05/2010

Don't Date This Guy!

| Posted 05.06.2010 | Books
Read More: The Irresistable Henry House, Parenting Tips, Parenting Advice, Attachment Disorder, Books News

From the 1920s until the end of the 1960s, college home economic classes around the country borrowed infants from orphanages to be used as "practice babies." I kid you not.

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Does the Pill Lower Sex Drive?

| Posted 05.13.2010 | Healthy Living
Read More: Birth Control, Female Sexuality, The Pill, The Venus Week, Female Libido, The-Pill-Turns-50, Healthy Living News

The pill that ushered in the sexual revolution may have also thrown cold water on women's libido.

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Breaking the Stigma of Mental Illness

| Posted 05.20.2010 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mental Illness, Mental Illness Advocacy, Glenn Close, Clenn Close PSA, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Mental Illness Stigmatization, Healthy Living News

As far as I know, I don't have a single patient who is ashamed of having high blood pressure. But millions of Americans think twice about seeking help for mental illness.

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Plastic Surgery: Risks of Going Under the Knife

| Posted 05.27.2010 | Healthy Living
Read More: Before the Scalpel: What Everyone Should Know About Anesthesia, Anesthesia, Anesthesioligist, Cosmetic Surgery, Healthy Living News

When everybody else -- surgeon included -- are swept up in a decision to do a procedure that's not in the best interest of the patient, the anesthesiologist represents one last chance for somebody to say, "not on my watch."

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