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CORDAY Eliot
 

Date of birth: June 29, 1913, Canada.

Date of death : February 8, 1999, Los Angeles.

Practise
Cardiologist.

He played a major role in conveying American knowledge about cardiology to other countries, particularly underdeveloped ones.

He became US citizen in 1951. He was a member of the board of Cedars-Sinai, where he was a senior attending physician from 1961. He was also a longtime clinical professor of medicine at the University of California of Los Angeles School of Medicine.

Link with Marilyn :

From 1948 until the middle of the 50's, he was one of Marilyn's doctor.

 

In an interview given to Anthony Summershe explained why he stopped treating Marilyn : "I gave up every medical relation with her because she didn't want to consult a good psychiatrist. People would better understand her death if they would have heard what she said in my office. She did several suicide attempts, more than what we know. In 1954, she took drugs - hard thing, associated with sedatives. At the end, I told her that I didn't want to be the witness odf what was going to happen".

 
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