Movies

[david-md]

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What are some good movies/dvds for those of us who want to become MDs? What about Nip/Tuck? I know ER is good.

 

[Apparition]

Gross Anatomy is about med school. Patch Adams. Awakenings.

 

[bigbassinbob]

Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, or Kill Bill. As a med student, you will see lots of blood and gore, curse a lot when you screw something up, and stick long needles into people when they pass out. These three essential topics are covered in great detail in these four movies. Besides, Quentin Tarantino is the ****tt.

 

[velo]

Nip/Tuck is TERRIBLE!!!
As for other TV i like Scrubs and Trauma: Life in the ER on TLC

Gross Anatomy is good for a laugh...based on public perception that the first year of med school is a highly stressful time where students are "weeded out"

Awakenings is good...based on an Oliver Sacks novel 👍

I think think they made a movie out of House of God too...but I havn't seen it.

 

[DieselPetrolGrl]

If you have time to watch movies u are not working hard enough

..you may watch ER reruns from 3 am till 5 in lieu of sleeping.

 

[constructor]

critical hour and a few other shows on discovery health are really interesting, although they're all re-runs at this point...

 

[Fusion]

Although I enjoy watching Nip/Tuck, Scrubs, and occasionally ER, no one should watch these shows thinking that they are an accurate reflection of medicine. They are highly dramatized, glamorized, and often exaggerated depictions of what it's like to be a physician. I definitely think there is some value to the TLC medical shows because they are non-fiction and often delve into the lives of doctors and residents. But the shows that are around for pure entertainment purposes are just that - entertainment - and nothing more.

 

[Mumpu]

TLC had a couple of really excellent documentary shows which are sadly not on anymore -- "Residents" and "Resident Life." Both offered an exceptionally accurate behind-the-scenes look at medical training. You can probably get them on video.

 

[VPDcurt]

haha - Flatliners - mediocre at best

 

[Medikit]

I really like the TV show called "The Residents".

 

[Mumpu]

Medikit, that's not on anymore, right?

 

[velo]

haha - Flatliners - mediocre at best

oh my god how did I forget Flatliners!?! 👍

 

[TripleDegree]

Lifetime has a show called "Strong Medicine"

PAX has a show called "Doc" starring Billy Ray Cyrus

There's also a show called "Dr 90210"

I also liked "The Residents" and "Resident Life"

Other shows that I watch are:

ER (obviously)
Trauma - Life in the ER
The Critical Hour - Discovery Health
Nip/Tuck
Lifeline
Chicago Hope (don't like this one that much)
Kingdom Hospital (yuck)

 

[Geronimo]

M*A*S*H* is back on late night! That is always a wierd one. They were discussing blood tranfusions and hepatitis. Also, there was a "Med School" series on TLC a few years back. Don't know if it is still out there?

 

[phleebie]

if you have digital cable, there's a channel called the Discovery Health channel and it only airs programs devoted to the medical field (including "resident life", shows about trauma rooms, paramedics, bizarre medical conditions, and a bunch of programs about babies/pregnancies). its a cool channel and i watch it all the time, but every once in a while it will air a really strange show...for instance, last week i watched a show about people addicted to sex, and another one about people who are attracted to their own family members. weird. and for the record, my favorite movie about medicine is "Doc Hollywood" - it's a classic and you can never go wrong w/michael j. fox.

 

[Gerg]

I honestly can't see how watching any particular movie is going to make anyone better prepared to be a Doctor.

My advice: Watch a whole bunch of movies, from Resivor Dogs to Heat to My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Legally Blonde 2. Find what movies you like, and start a collection. When you're tired and stressed, don't give a damn about another innervation or action, pop in one that'll help you relax. I recommend:

Futurama
Family Guy
Shawshank Redemption
The Big Lebowski
Aliens

Event Horizon is good, too if you like space movies, laugh at gore, and like stupid movies (I'm a HUGE fan).

If you really want to watch something to help you prepare (for the Med School aspect), there are other threads that recommend good prosection videos.

Afterthough: From Hell, Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, or Hannible are good if you think Anthony Hopkins is a stud, and you can appreciate that doctors can be evil, in addition to good.

 

[Mumpu]

Another essential hospital movie: "Hardboiled" with Chow Yun Fat. 🙂

 

[Medikit]

Medikit, that's not on anymore, right?

I don't know, I don't watch much tv

 

[Phil Anthropist]

There were some good suggestions in this thread too:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=132008

 

[Quynh2007]

Nip/Tuck is TERRIBLE!!!
As for other TV i like Scrubs and Trauma: Life in the ER on TLC

Gross Anatomy is good for a laugh...based on public perception that the first year of med school is a highly stressful time where students are "weeded out"

Awakenings is good...based on an Oliver Sacks novel 👍

I think think they made a movie out of House of God too...but I havn't seen it.

I was |-------| this close to having dinner with oliver sacks, and i was |-------------| this close to talking to him. damn me for working until 8, when his seminar was 2 feet away and started at 7 a couple of weeks ago! oh well, i'm gonna definitely try my best to meet janet reno in a couple of months.

 

[Nflow]

If you have time to watch movies u are not working hard enough

..you may watch ER reruns from 3 am till 5 in lieu of sleeping.

Funny I do watch reruns of ER at wee hours of the morning and go to class with a TV hang over 🙂 I am not joking either, it's 5:00 A.M. right now. I am addicted to SDN and TV, oh well everyone's got a vice 😀

 

[Damnit Jim!]

The best I have seen so far is "And the Band Played On". It's a film about the AIDS epidemic in the mid 80's and the researchers involved. The thing that I liked most about the film was that they looked at the disease from multiple points of view - the patient advocacy groups, gay rights activists, researchers, etc. Also the portrayals of the researcher personalities were fairly accurate for a movie. Awesome movie, very touching too.

Another movie was "The Doctor" with William Hurt. It was based on a true story of a surgeon who developed throat cancer. The film is about his transformation from a cold, impersonal doctor to a kind, compassionate one. The movie is a little bit cheesy and overdramatized at times, but still pretty good.

I liked "Awakenings" as well, although they exaggerated and overdramatized a lot.

If you're into Kurosawa films, '''Redbeard" is pretty good. It's kind of like a samurai film and doctor film rolled into one. It's about an intern who is forced to practice medicine in a village. Initially, he is disdainful of the villagers and country folk, but under the tutelage of Redbeard, played by Toshiro Mifune, he becomes passionate about treating the underserved. Kurosawa also made the film "Ikiru" which I didn't like so much, but has received a lot of critical acclaim.

 

[Quynh2007]

I really liked cider house rules, although I saw it for my sociology class 🙂