The mystery of another Kennedy sister  |
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|  I read this from yahoo news that JFK sister, Rosemary, was institutionalized due to the wrong medical procedure, lobotomy, performed on her when she was 23, according to the news, it was performed at the approval of her father to correct mental retardation, the procedure went wrong.
But I was wondering why, with all the power attached to the Kennedys, they did not sue the doctors who performed the procedure?it was a clear evidence of medical malpractice. Anyway, that was long time ago and Rosemary died last 2005 at the age of 88. But I was just curious with this case because there's a line that intrigued me more in the wikipedia when I read the story about Rosemary Kennedy:"it was the biggest cover-up medical story" (wikipedia). my Gosh!
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1.  ElicBxn (24688)
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3 years ago
| |  they didn't sue because it wasn't an approved treatment for mental retardation
they also didn't want anyone to know there was retardation in the family - Joe Kennedy had ambition to have a son become President if he could find a way (even buy it if that would do it.)
It was supposed to be the eldest, Joseph, but he died in the war, so the mantle fell to John.
If Teddy hadn't killed Mary Jo Kopechne he'd've been running for President too.
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 jlamela (3840)
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3 years ago
| | Actually yes, I also read in the wikipedia that Rosemary was treated retarded because her I.Q did not match those of her siblings which had a soaring 130 IQ, but before the operation she was responsive and coherent as revealed on her writing on the diaries, so why the family was disturbed with her mood swing. But anyway, that was so long time ago only that it rose my interest when I read about Rosemary Kennedy in wikipedia. | | | |
| savak03 (2657)
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3 years ago
| |  Do you really believe that?? Even back then I don't think anyone would think that lobotomizing someone would cure mental retardation. You know you really can't believe everything you see in print.
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| ElicBxn (24688)
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3 years ago
| | I think Joe Kennedy would do anything to protect his family and if she were in anyway likely to be a problem he would find a way to keep her from doing it - ambitious doesn't even come close to covering what Joe Kennedy was... | | | |
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| 2. loudcry (538)
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3 years ago
| |  Mental illnesses have been treated in many ways, ways which now have become obsolete. Our defination of mental illness has also changed over the years. Today a moody or defiant person is not considered mentally ill. One more such story come to my mind. Author Paulo Coelho was institutionalised because he wanted to become a writer! Institutionalising people who wanted to pursue unusual careers was quite common in Brazil. Paulo coelho wrote the book 'Veronica decides to die' because he always wanted to write something about this topic.
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3.  bobmnu (4822)
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3 years ago
| |  Joe Kennedy knew the risks and wanted to doctors to do it. He ordered the operation with out his wifes knowledge it has been rummored. During that time period this was an operation used to cure many "Mental Illnesses". It involves cutting or removing part of the front of the brain. If done on the righ person and successfully the person becane happy rather than depressed. It has to do with cutting off some of the "emotions" of the Brain. More times than not the person ended up a a near zombie. alive but with no emotions and not able to care for themselves.
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