Excellent medical documentaries

Cristina 2022-11-23 15:50:09

With the post-industrial revolution and rationalization, modern medicine has also moved towards rationalization, stripping away all human emotions, focusing only on human biology and ignoring human cultural and social nature, and only treating the disease itself. This may be the development of modern medicine. The most limited side is also the side that deviates from the essence of medicine.

Sometimes to heal, often to help, always to comfort, this may be the most intuitive paragraph to introduce the essence of medicine.

About the nature of medicine, about the role of the doctor, about the model of medicine, about the doctor-patient relationship, about the understanding of death, this film is too deep.

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Patch Adams quotes

  • Mitch: [as Patch cleans out his locker, Mitch happens upon him] You can't leave.

    Patch Adams: [closing locker] If what you say is true, it looks like I'm defying the laws of possibility.

    Patch Adams: [Patch goes to move past Mitch, but Mitch stands in his way] What're you doing? Oh... I can't leave till you beat me? Is that it? Okay, I surrender. You're number one, you're the top student in the class. You're smarter than me. Is that what you want to hear? Now can I leave?

    Mitch: [puts up his hand and blocks him again] You know Mrs. Kennedy in 212? She doesn't eat. I visited her room every day for the past three weeks. I can't get her to eat.

    Mitch: Now I know everything there is to know about medicine. I've studied relentlessly. I guarantee you I can outdo, outdiagnose any attending or surgeon in this hospital.

    Patch Adams: [nods] Mm-hmm.

    Mitch: But I can't make her eat.

    [near tears]

    Mitch: You have a gift.

    [shakes head]

    Mitch: You have a way with people. You know they like you. And if you leave... I can't learn this way.

    [Patch walks off]

  • Patch Adams: [Patch returns to Bill Davis' room after being thrown out earlier; he's wearing an angel costume; Bill's eyes open wide in disbelief] Preview of coming attractions.