Pathology ( 2008 ) - Movie

[purplecolor]

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makes me feel sick about the profession

 

[markglt]

that movie was crap

 

[lipomas]

I saw about 20 minutes of that movie when I was up late at night sick and couldn't sleep. I saw some guy doing an autopsy on his girlfriend. They showed quite a bit of it. She died mysteriously or something and he said, "I'll do the autopsy."

I don't know if that was really supposed to be Winona Ryder laying there or not on the table before the cutting. If it was, she didn't get paid enough!

 

[KCShaw]

That was exactly like my fellowship. Right down to the big explosion in the basement and Q as an attending. Yall must be at some SOFT joints, no competition or, y'know, working outside the box. GAH.

 

[HbyHA]

who doesn't have sex and do drugs in their morgue?

Sheesh!

 

[yaah]

I have yet to see this movie - are there any scenes that are supposed to represent what pathologists do or are is it just a movie about sex and drugs with an occasional autopsy scene?

 

[TinyFish]

I have yet to see this movie - are there any scenes that are supposed to represent what pathologists do or are is it just a movie about sex and drugs with an occasional autopsy scene?

Heh...pretty much all sex and drugs with an occasional autopsy scene. It was quite awful. It's kind of like "Showgirls" - you need to expect a bad movie and watch it with friends with the sole purpose of making fun of it.

Sadly, this movie fits in with most media portrayals of pathology. I've gotten comments from medical and non-medical people alike to the effect of, "I guess what you do doesn't really matter...all you do is deal with dead people, anyway." If that were true, I guess there would be nothing wrong with throwing some sex and drugs in to lighten the mood up a little. 😀

 

[purplecolor]

Heh...pretty much all sex and drugs with an occasional autopsy scene. It was quite awful. It's kind of like "Showgirls" - you need to expect a bad movie and watch it with friends with the sole purpose of making fun of it.

Sadly, this movie fits in with most media portrayals of pathology. I've gotten comments from medical and non-medical people alike to the effect of, "I guess what you do doesn't really matter...all you do is deal with dead people, anyway." If that were true, I guess there would be nothing wrong with throwing some sex and drugs in to lighten the mood up a little. 😀

the worst thing which is hard for me to believe is what kind of program exists where residents/pathologist do autopsy without gloves and handle instruments as they are perfectly clean. come on this is not surgery.... instruments are not sterile.
the actors hold organs with bare hands. some one also threw heart/some other organ to hit another residents head for fun !! ? ? ? are these psyco's

 

[yaah]

the worst thing which is hard for me to believe is what kind of program exists where residents/pathologist do autopsy without gloves and handle instruments as they are perfectly clean. come on this is not surgery.... instruments are not sterile.
the actors hold organs with bare hands. some one also threw heart/some other organ to hit another residents head for fun !! ? ? ? are these psyco's

Maybe the consultant pathologist they used had been retired for 20 years.

 

[KCShaw]

There was one scene in the morgue, when no-one was actually saying anything, which showed bodies lined up and different people performing autopsies in the background, and that 5 or 6 seconds was pretty realistic (for FP). Overall it liberally tantalizes what might happen in a devilish version of House of God for forensic pathologists.

As for gloves, my chairman when I was a 1st year in residency told a story of when he went to another lab as an inspector (for CAP I guess it was), and during the inspection while he was talking to one of the pathologists that pathologist was called for a frozen section. So they walked to the frozen room and the pathologist being inspected promptly rolled up his sleeves, picked up the fresh specimen with his bare hands, and proceeded to do the gross and prepare a frozen while my chairman watched in dumbfounded shock. Older chap who otherwise seemed to know what he was doing, just felt absolutely no need to glove up no matter who was watching, seeing as how that's what skin is for anyway I suppose.

For flying organs, I've heard a couple of stories. I don't believe any of the smackings were intentional, however.

For sex & drugs, I've heard, well, other stories. Stories can get very interesting in morgues, but so can imaginations, so it's hard to say for sure.

 

[gbwillner]

I thought it was great.... It was one of those its-so-bad-it's-good type movies. I also liked that the characters were not so sterile- there were no really "good" or "evil" characters. In the end, the protagonist turns out just as douchey as the rest of them.

The best part was early on when that one resident who gets picked on gets a spleen thrown at his head.

//you mean you do something other than autopsies in pathology residency?

 

[djmd]

Q as an attending.

That would be an entertaining sign out...

 

[schrute]

I saw about 20 minutes of that movie when I was up late at night sick and couldn't sleep. I saw some guy doing an autopsy on his girlfriend. They showed quite a bit of it. She died mysteriously or something and he said, "I'll do the autopsy."

I don't know if that was really supposed to be Winona Ryder laying there or not on the table before the cutting. If it was, she didn't get paid enough!

Holy crap, man, that was Alyssa Milano, not Winona Ryder.

It is fun to watch just to keep tabs on all the ridiculous errors, though...eg. when Milo pulls Milano's heart out and throws it on the scale, if you look closely it reads like 1500 grams.

 

[lipomas]

lol, I did know that. I confuse the two of them for some reason. I have no idea why, since I don't find Winona Ryder interesting or attractive at all and I used to have a huge crush on Alyssa Milano.