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This 3 page paper explains the relevance of the film “The Doctor” to medical students with regards to assessment and appraisal. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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Discussion The film follows Dr. Jack MacKee (Hurt), a well-known heart surgeon, who is "first seen presiding over an operating room team with the brash, cowboy arrogance of a seasoned
expert" (Maslin, 1991). He is seen as arrogant, somewhat cold, and determined to keep a distance from his patients, with whom he refuses to empathize in the slightest. Soon, however,
MacKee is diagnosed with cancer and becomes a patient in his own hospital, learning, quite literally, what its like to be on the receiving end of the type of treatment
he has been routinely dishing out. When he gets sick, he wants to be coddled and comforted, but instead he receives the same impersonal treatment from his caregivers that he
routinely gave to others. Why would this film be good for students who are learning to give psychological tests? Because it clearly shows both sides of the question: what its
like to be the doctor and what its like to be the patient. Even more importantly, perhaps, it shows that there is a real emotional component to healing that goes
far beyond the necessary skills of the physician. As Dr. MacKee learned in the film, its not enough to treat the persons symptoms, a doctor has to treat the whole
person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their illness ("The cancer in Room 412"); they are people with lives and families
and interests that go far beyond the condition that brought them to the hospital. The illness that they have is only one part of their life, a temporary setback that
they want to overcome. It doesnt define them, and the doctor is way out of line when he labels them with their condition. Part of the psychological tests that are
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