Jim suffered heart problems. In conversation he expressed little joy and it seemed that his life was drawing to a close. When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jim was rushed back to operation, but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day before his 48th birthday. Dr. Bruce Smoller, a psychologist , had had many conversations with him, and the more he learned, the stranger he realized Jim's case was. When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered a heart attack and stayed home to recover. One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework, promising to come home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jim returned his father had died. Jim's father was 48. "I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father," Dr. Smoller says. "He felt that if he had not asked him to look at his homework, his father would have lived. Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation was the trial he had expected for forty years. " Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to the age of 48. Jim's case shows the powerful role that attitude plays in physical health, and that childhood experiences produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct than Jim's, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
What are midlife diseases?
How old was Jim when his father died?
What did he his dad do for a living?
What did the son need help with?
Did he believe that it killed his dad?
What happened when he was 47?
Was he expected to survive the surgery?
Who analyzed Jim?
What does he do?
Did Jim & Smoller talk much?
What effects the health of adults?
Cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
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The operation was the trial he had expected for forty years. " Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to the age of 48.
He was a teacher,
 When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher,
his homework
One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework
Dr. Smoller thiought so.
"I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father," Dr. Smoller says.
He died on the operating table.
He died on the operating table on the day before his 48th birthday.
a full recovery was expected for the first surgery.
Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was expected.
Dr. Bruce Smoller
Dr. Bruce Smoller, a psychologist , had had many conversations with him, 
he is a psychologist
Dr. Bruce Smoller, a psychologist
They had had many conversations
 had had many conversations
Attitude.
Jim's case shows the powerful role that attitude plays in physical health,