Movies for Pre-Meds

[MADSTAB]

Hey I thought we could start a thread for movies that relate to Medical school and/or medicine just so we have something to watch during this long app. process. I'll start with:

Patch Adams
Gross Anatomy

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[UCLAstudent]

John Q

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Harold and Kumar

 

[Fermata]

Harold and Kumar

Dr. Patel. 😀

 

[jhrugger]

yeah, so gross anatomy was not a good movie at all. some pretty bad acting.

i'd say Van Wilder (anyone notice in the movie that the frat dude that was banging tara reid was taking the MCAT just minutes before his Northwestern interview? i guess only a premed would notice that fallacy...when i pointed it out to my non-premed friends, i definitely got flamed)

 

[AsianDoc816]

Harold and Kumar

That was the best, hands down.

 

[futuredocter]

Hey Guys,
You should see the movie Spanking the Monkey. It was released in the early 90's and is about a guy who is a medical student but has a lot of home "issues". It is pretty funny. And no, it's not a porno.

 

[JDAD]

anchor man, just because

napolean dynamite is also wonderful

 

[lulubean]

are book recommendations allowed? Complications by Atul Gawande is AWESOME...

 

[Haybrant]

gattaca; best movie ever

also, saving ryan's private's was good too....

 

[Nebulizer]

Flatliners
Awakenings

 

[brats800]

fight club.....really gets the application stress outta my system.

 

[beep]

wit. one of the most amazing movies ever.

 

[DrYo12]

wit. one of the most amazing movies ever.

Highly emotional and dramatic. I wouldn't call it stress 'relief'. But nonetheless, fantastic movie.

 

[MsEvolution]

Highly emotional and dramatic. I wouldn't call it stress 'relief'. But nonetheless, fantastic movie.

What's it about?

 

[Damnit Jim!]

And The Band Played On.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

Dumb and Dumber

Why? Because its funny.

 

[SitraAchra]

Home Alone.

 

[DrYo12]

What's it about?

Oh man. Its about a famous writer that has ovarian cancer and her tortuous treatment with chemotherapy and her time in the hospital, slowly degenerating, getting better, then getting worse. Really dramatic stuff, especially because Emma Thompson is a fantastic actress and really makes it real for you.

 

[VPDcurt]

The Tao of Steve

 

[IllinoisStudent]

Harold and Kumar

One of the best brainless movie I have ever seen. 2 hours of fun Cheetah smoking pot was my favorite part, and the special bush too

 

[supersnuffles]

House of God (book)

 

[FlushingNemo]

Oh man. Its about a famous writer that has ovarian cancer and her tortuous treatment with chemotherapy and her time in the hospital, slowly degenerating, getting better, then getting worse. Really dramatic stuff, especially because Emma Thompson is a fantastic actress and really makes it real for you.

In addition to watching the film, you should read the play, and then go see the play. I'd also suggest you do all three for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

 

[PKP719]

I think the poster wanted to know about medical / school related films , not your fav movie lol

Cant think of any right now but when I do , i will re post

 

[IllinoisStudent]

House of God (book)

It was a good book, although I don't think it applys well in today's world anymore. The author uses too much promiscuity in the book. I guess he used it to sell the book.

I have always wondered if the book is really a fiction as they say it is.

Here is my guess:
BMS = HMS (Harvard Medical School), and
House of God = Beth Israel.

What do you guys who have read the book think? I like the sarcasm in BMS = Best Medical School.

For those of you interested in medical issues, Complications by Atul Gawande is a good book.

 

[latinfridley]

Red Beard.
Great Akira Kurosawa flick on what it means to be a physician. Highly recommended.

 

[iamgoaloriented]

wit. one of the most amazing movies ever.

Wit? Jason is ok, but I can't stand Vivian. Donne cared about things other than wit you know, and I really didn't need to see Emma Thompson's boobs.

You guys do remember that Howard the Duck went to med school? That movie is so bad its hysterical (Vivian would still think George Lucas was trying to be witty). The Dark overlord (played by the principle from Ferris Bueler) scenes scared me when I was a little kid but now they are so funny it hurts to watch.

 

[kappasigMD41]

The Big Lebowski. Funniest movie ever, and thorough.

 

[iamgoaloriented]

The Big Lebowski. Funniest movie ever, and thorough.

Don't mess with the Jesus.

 

[funshine]

I think the poster wanted to know about medical / school related films , not your fav movie lol

Cant think of any right now but when I do , i will re post

you're probably right, but i never cared for medicine-related movies so i'll post my faves instead =)...and they definitely will make the waiting process easier.

BIG LEBOWSKI
man on the moon (jim carrey is the most underrated actor ever, IMO)

gloomy sunday (you should go listen to the song that the movie takes its title from. Apparently it has inspired hundreds of people to commit suicide. the lyrics are beautiful though.)

requiem for a dream
donnie darko
mean girls
napoleon dynamite

 

[leviathan]

Don't mess with the Jesus.

Eight year olds, Dude.

 

[beep]

Wit? ... Donne cared about things other than wit you know...

hmm. i think you may have partly missed the point.

 

[iamgoaloriented]

Oh man. Its about a famous writer that has ovarian cancer and her tortuous treatment with chemotherapy and her time in the hospital, slowly degenerating, getting better, then getting worse. Really dramatic stuff, especially because Emma Thompson is a fantastic actress and really makes it real for you.

And while this is happening she begins to realize what a nut she is.

The only thing in life she takes pleasure in is finding the Wit that is supposedly present in all of the Holy Sonnets, even when John Donne is clearly writting about something else (it'd be ok if she accepted multiple interpretations, but she insists on hers, since it is what she is good at and what makes her feel good about herself so clearly that is all that matters), and she could care less about anything else (no, you cant get an extension on your paper to go to your grandma funeral, I want another paper to analyze according to my criteria). I'm suprised she even manages to walk around and not bump into things seeing that she only sees what she beleives and not the other way around.

She does change during the course of the play. She finally learns the value of compassion (since she is seeking it, again it becomes important when it seeks to benefit her, but her regret is genuine so I give her credit for this) when nobody is really showing it to her and even starts to interpret the sonnets differently at the end (but is this due to her personal growth or mental decline, I say she hallucinated seeing her old prof because she clearly had better places to be that day), but then she dies.

Tragic yes, but it is the life she chose. Vivian is very much like Darth Vader.

 

[Phil Anthropist]

gattaca; best movie ever

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. 👍 👍

Well, I don't think Wit was perfect by any means, but I enjoyed some aspects of it. It was interesting to see how the doctors interacted with her. Sometimes it seemed like they were forgetting who they were treating--a person.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243664/

 

[WalterSobchakk]

The Big Lebowski. Funniest movie ever, and thorough.

F'n A, man.

Also, Rushmore is a classic.

"I like your nurse uniform, guy."
"These are OR scrubs..."
"O...R they?"

 

[iamgoaloriented]

hmm. i think you may have partly missed the point.

I was merely mentioning in passing my dislike for Vivian. I have briefly discussed why above. Shes sees what she believes, values and cares for only what she is good at, and basically lives in her own little world.

Her experience changes her and I give her credit for changing. It's a shame she had to die right after this happens, but then again it was her dying that influenced her change to begin with. Her story then is both tragic and ironic.

Like Darth Vader, just after she steers clear of the dark path she dies, although only in the face of what destroyed her body was she able to save her soul. At least Vader had his son with him when he died though (Vivian merely hallucinated her prof being there).

And I still say Howard the Duck. The Dark Overlord of the universe could have saved Vivian had Howard not used the neutron disintegrater on him.

 

[DrYo12]

D'oh...I just remembered another medicine movie that's really funny--The Medicine Show. It has Jason Silverman, who is really sarcastic and snarky.

 

[myodana]

Don't mess with the Jesus.

that rug really tied the room together...

 

[45408]

Dumb and Dumber

Why? Because its funny.

Definitely. Van Wilder was the one I was going to recommend in here.

 

[iamgoaloriented]

In Pirates of Silicon Valley, Bill Gates considers going to med school for a few moments (he thinks he forgot to write a loader so the Altair people might not be too impressed with the computer language he wrote for them, and Microsoft would be finished).

"I should be a doctor or something"

Fortunately for Bill he didnt have to do something which to him seemed pretty degrading and not special enough for a man of his ambition.

That reminds me, I was told (not sure if this story is true but I heard it from someone) that the guy who ran the Altair company decided to go to med school after he realized the computer industry was going to be a young mans business.

People sometimes talk about how humbling/intimidating it can be when they interview with so many talented people. How would you like to compete with a guy who has on his resume that he employed Paul Allen and Bill Gates while running a computer company (wasnt the Altair the first personal computer, it was certainly one of the first)? It enough to make a gunner crap in their pants.

 

[USCTex]

If you're looking for movies out right now to take your mind off the waiting game...

Finding Neverland w/ Johnny Depp (I don't know if its out nationwide yet)
Sideways by the guy who did Election (and we all know Election was awesome)

 

[JohnnyOU]

are book recommendations allowed? Complications by Atul Gawande is AWESOME...

I read that one. It was worth reading.

Johnny

 

[iamgoaloriented]

wit. one of the most amazing movies ever.

I reread Wit and take back what I said before. Jason is a piece of crap too. Best example of a gunner I've ever seen in any piece of Literature. He is so much like Vivian (she definitely should have given him an A). What he is interested in is all that matters and he can't relate to anyone othewise (cant even understand that a dying person might be scared). I don't see him as a Darth Vader figure though. Perhaps he is Anakin in the prequels, minus Anakins good moments that is. Maybe he turns to the dark side fully after he is forced to resign after breaking a law and causing the university/hospital he works at to lose thier funding. Will he ever be saved?

 

[LUBDUBB]

"Getting In" -1994


Movie about some guy on the waitlist at JHU who goes around killing other ppl on the waitlist so he can get in.

 

[Fermata]

"Getting In" -1994


Movie about some guy on the waitlist at JHU who goes around killing other ppl on the waitlist so he can get in.

😀

Sounds like an interesting premise.

 

[Damnit Jim!]

"Getting In" -1994


Movie about some guy on the waitlist at JHU who goes around killing other ppl on the waitlist so he can get in.

at JHU? I don't like films that are too realistic.

 

[Damnit Jim!]

Watch Trekkies. No matter how bad the process makes you feel, you will feel much better after watching this film. Just knowing that no matter how bad it gets, it could always be worse. When I watch people spending thousands to remake their rooms into replicas of starships, suddenly, I don't feel so bad about spending thousands on the app process.


Napoleon Dynamite.

Just imagine that the 3.9 gpa 39 MCAT person is Summer. Remember that Pablo won the election. It's all about what skills you have, like nunchuk skills, frog genetics skills, cage fighting skills, etc.