Cool Old Film Loop

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Winged Scapula actually still reads our forum!
Glad to see you 🙂

If anyone has Turner Classic Movies and is on MST or PST, I'm watching a cool 1938 film short about the history of anaethesia right now. Thought someone here might be interested in seeing it as well. Sort of funny.
 
Winged Scapula actually still reads our forum!
Glad to see you 🙂

Thanks. I sneak in from time to time. I've learned a lot about anesthesia from reading the posts here (and perhaps more than I want to know about some of ya'lls private lives 😛 ).

I find that knowing more about the concerns of anesthesiologists helps me be a better surgeon and to improve on an already good relationship with them.

Anyway, the film short (10 min) was quite unintentionally humorous/appalling (some racial stuff) given the mores of the time (1938) and intentionally humorous when it showed the first patient (whom I think was not actually the first patient to receive anesthesia, despite the claims) throwing a fit over the anesthesiologist's $2 bill.

Come to think of it, with Medicare cuts, that might be what you guys end up getting.😡

A cute little film that is worth looking for on TCM.
 
For those interested, the title of the film that 'Winged Scapula' referred to is "The Great Moment", produced in 1944.

All 4th-year med students who interview at the University of Illinois anesthesiology residency program are shoehorned into watching clips of this hammy classic during the interview day. I wouldn't recommend purchasing the film, but I did enjoy the obligatory 'Gentlemen, this is no humbug' scene.

Video trailer is at videodetective.

Detailed film info at wikipedia.
 
For those interested, the title of the film that 'Winged Scapula' referred to is "The Great Moment", produced in 1944.

All 4th-year med students who interview at the University of Illinois anesthesiology residency program are shoehorned into watching clips of this hammy classic during the interview day. I wouldn't recommend purchasing the film, but I did enjoy the obligatory 'Gentlemen, this is no humbug' scene.

Video trailer is at videodetective.

Detailed film info at wikipedia.

Nope, that wasn't it (although looks amusing).

I wasn't watching a film but a film *short* from 1938 entitled "Anaesthesia": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029869/
 
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