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These suicide tips are Dr. Peter J. Steincrohn's shock treatment for businessmen in his tart, trenchant book: Mr. Executive: Keep Well-Live Longer (Frederick Fell; $4.95). In a medical memo addressed to the health hazards and cures of the stresses of life in the executive suite, Dr. Steincrohn, who is also a newspaper columnist (60 papers), makes a plea for good sense and moderation in the businessman's own terms. "The prematurely sick or dead executive is a failure," says Steincrohn. "He has let down his family, his friends, his corporation. And often the executive most brilliant...
Tension is the businessman's health nemesis, says Dr. Steincrohn, and while some of his remedies for tension are predictable, others are not. Among them...
...Patients. Unruly as most patients (about 4,000,000 incapacitated by heart disease in the U.S.) are the non-patients who should be under treatment. There are uncounted millions of them. Anyone, says Dr. Steincrohn, who has rapid pulse, shortness of breath, palpitation, heart skips, indigestion, gas pressure, fainting spells, asthmatic attacks, cough, swelling of ankles, blue lips or fingernails, who tires easily or spits blood should go to his doctor and find out what ails...
...life has been saved because he was scared into the doctor's office by having a friend fall dead. Another group he urges to the doctor are the five or ten million who suspect they have heart disease but feel normal. Many will get good news. Dr. Steincrohn knows a woman who gave up nearly all exercise before she found out from her doctor that there was nothing wrong with her. She had unnecessarily missed five years of her favorite sport, tennis...
Though he deplores unnecessarily early deaths from heart disease and advises all precautions to prevent them, Dr. Steincrohn thinks heart disease is the ideal way to die. It should be "the grand climax of life, and it ought to occur near the conclusion of the last act-at about 80 or 90 years...