Posts Tagged ‘movies’

Portraits of Mental Illness

February 22, 2010Dr. Kona No Comments »

This weekend was the opening weekend for Martin Scorsese’s latest flick Shutter Island – a psycho thriller about a patient gone missing at a psychiatric hospital containing patients that are deemed criminally insane.   I won’t give away the plot, but it’s definitely a must see.  The profiles of the patients there are certainly over-dramatized; however, [...]

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Death by Movie

January 19, 2010Dr. Kona No Comments »

USA Today reported today that a 42 year old Taiwanese man died after watching the movie Avatar.  He apparently had a history of high blood pressure and felt “ill” while watching the movie.  He went to the hospital, where imaging of his brain showed a hemorrhagic stroke.  The doctor who took care of him diagnosed [...]

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