BinghamLitBits

• Live better or live longer?, The Riverdale Press, July 5, 2007
• Neighbors' generosity, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, Spring, 2007
• Mrs. Lincoln, How Do You Like Your Play? (by Peter Edidin, about June's play), The New York Times, September 4, 2006
• Labor of love, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, August 31, 2006
• Doctor & patient: What are patients' rights? Do doctors go too far?, The Riverdale Press, August 31, 2006
• Doctor & patient: Staying healthy no matter the age, The Riverdale Press, April 27, 2006
• Doctor & patient: Should doctor shield patient from truth?, The Riverdale Press, March 30, 2006
• Balancing the Doctor and Patient, The New York Times Letters, March 26, 2006
• Doctor & patient: Do I need those extra tests?, The Riverdale Press, February 23, 2006
• A conversation about requited love, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, February 9, 2006
• Good News For Old Girls, Barnard Magazine, Winter, 2006
• Doctor & patient: Can praying help someone to recover?, The Riverdale Press, December 29, 2005
• Separation of church and state, going back to the pilgrims, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, November 17, 2005
• Doctor & patient: Taking the guilt out of feeling ill, The Riverdale Press, October 27, 2005
• A summer reunion spans generations, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, October 13, 2005
• Doctor & patient: What's a body scan and should I get one?, The Riverdale Press, September 29, 2005
• Response to "Parental Supervision Required", The New York Times Letters, September 12, 2005
• Doctor & patient: How to ease the pain of a dying patient, The Riverdale Press, August 25, 2005
• Doctor & patient: 'When, oh when will he call me back?', The Riverdale Press, July 28, 2005
• Doctor & patient: Docs, patients agree: fix health insurance, The Riverdale Press, June 30, 2005
• Letting go: Love's final gift, The Riverdale Press, May 26, 2005
• Doctor & patient: Who decides when there's no hope?, The Riverdale Press, May 26, 2005
• Doctor & patient: Describing the perfect patient (and MD), The Riverdale Press, April 28, 2005
• Till Death Do Us Part, And Then Some: Ghosts Keep a Marriage Floating, The New York Times, April 12, 2005
• Doctor & patient: 'Are you ready for an e-diagnosis?', The Riverdale Press, March 31, 2005
• Doctor & patient: Whose medical file is it, anyway?, The Riverdale Press, February 24, 2005
• Doctor & patient: 'My flu symptoms baffled my doctor', The Riverdale Press, January 27, 2005
• Doctor & patient: What to do when the doctor's wrong, The Riverdale Press, December 30, 2004
• Doctor & patient: Why does my doctor keep me in the dark?, The Riverdale Press, November 25, 2004
• If It Goes On Without Me, Then I've Done a Good Job, The New York Times, November 15, 2004
• Doctor & patient: Are herbal remedies unhealthy?, The Riverdale Press, October 28, 2004
• The long road to mental health, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, October 14, 2004
• Making Decisions About How to Die, The New York Times Letters, October 3, 2004
• Doctor & patient: When are drug prescriptions too much of a good thing?, The Riverdale Press, September 30, 2004
• Doctor & patient: As specialists step in, who's in charge here?, The Riverdale Press, August 26, 2004
• Doctor & patient: Those darned pills make me feel bad, The Riverdale Press, July 29, 2004
• Doctor & patient: Should doctors help patients with suicide?, The Riverdale Press, June 24, 2004
• Doctor & patient: The hardest topic to discuss is death, The Riverdale Press, May 27, 2004
• Doctor & patient: What should doctor do when words don't help?, The Riverdale Press, April 29, 2004
• After the Kids, Careers and Craziness, There's Time for Old Friends, The New York Times, April 13, 2004
• Doctor & patient: Learning to cope with the doctor who wants to fire the patient, The Riverdale Press, March 25, 2004
• Doctor & patient: Why do I have to wait when I arrive on time?, The Riverdale Press, February 26, 2004
• Doctor & patient: Can the doctor help a grieving survivor?, The Riverdale Press, January 29, 2004
• To Love, Honor And Campaign For? The New York Times Letters, January 16, 2004
• Doctor & patient: Does the doctor prefer sound of his own voice?, The Riverdale Press, December 25, 2003
• Doctor & patient: Medicare flaw causes waiting room blues, The Riverdale Press, November 27, 2003
• Doctor & patient: 'When I ask questions I get sneers in return', The Riverdale Press, October 30, 2003
• 'Doctor & patient' column debuts, The Riverdale Press, October 30, 2003
• Confessions of an impatient patient, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, August 21, 2003
• You're Never Too Old for a Pap Test, She Learns, The New York Times Women's Health Section, June 22, 2003
• The perfect gift: a grandmother's dilemma, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, May 22, 2003
• A Dialogue About Health, The Groton School Quarterly, May 2003
• Lehman, great public servant and great uncle, The Riverdale Press, March 6, 2003
• New language describes a new lease on life, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, January 16, 2003
• A Complaint against "Complaints", Annals of Internal Medicine, January 7, 2003 (off-site)
• A New Tolerance in Mental Health, New York City Voices, September-October, 2002
• Not By Any Other Name, Vassar Magazine, Spring, 2002
• Looking death straight in the eye, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, November 15, 2001
• Post-Independence Day thoughts, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, July 12, 2001
• Daughter made dying a ministry of joy, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, April 12, 2001
• Life repeats itself, great-grandma finds, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, December 7, 2000
• Women can have it all--if they're patient, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, June 15, 2000
• A genius offers advice on love, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, February 3, 2000
• Holiday reunion bolsters 'cousining', The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, December 16, 1999
• UN and elders focus on what matters, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, June 10, 1999
• Savoring age, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Op-Ed page, January 12, 1999
• Our era's unmentionable subject, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, October 22, 1998
• Learning when life isn't worth living, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, August 20, 1998
• Saving the world is the best of gifts, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, January 1, 1998
• A Reluctant Doctor Shopper, Annals of Internal Medicine, October 1, 1997
• A Healing Gene, The Living Pulpit, April-June 1997
• Seniors aren't put on the shelf here, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, June 6, 1996
• M.R. Stands For Medicare Returned, The Riverdale Review, December 14-20, 1995
• GI wives have sense of reliving life, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, May 11, 1995
• Your signature can save seven lives, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, October 21, 1993
• Is it right or wrong to opt out of life?, The Riverdale Press Op-Ed page, November 7, 1991
• Why Hospital Patients Need a Bedside Proxy, The Washington Post, August 12, 1990
• Ultimate Recycling, Mediphors, 1990
• Old, Young, and The Labor of Love, The New York Times Op-Ed page, September 2, 1985
• Better late than early, Vassar Quarterly, Winter, 1984
• The Bounty of Age, The New York Times Op-Ed page, Thanksgiving Day, 1984
• Presents' Absence, The New York Times Op-Ed page, Christmas Eve, 1983
• Not Smothers-in-Law, The New York Times Op-Ed page, December 29, 1982
• Do Babies Have Worries?, a pamphlet originally published by the Mental Hygiene Council of Westchester County, New York, and later re-published by the UK National Association for Mental Health, in the late 1960s. This latter version has recently (Oct 2004) been published in a Web format by David Kettlewell.

June Bingham was an author and playwright. Published are her biographies of Reinhold Niebuhr and U Thant. She also co-wrote books on health with two different psychiatrists. Her plays have been produced off-B'way and in several other states. At the time of her death, she had fourteen living greatgrandchildren and two more in utero. Her late first husband, Jonathan Bingham, was a Member of Congress for 18 years; her second husband, Robert Bowen Birge, co-founded The Living Pulpit, www.pulpit.org.

Obituaries:

• June Bingham Birge; Writer, Politician's Wife, The Washington Post, August 25, 2007
• Comunity leader, author, June Bingham dies at 88, The Riverdale Press, August 23, 2007.

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