PM&R movie - coming soon!!!

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Ok the title is misleading...
I wish Hollywood would make a really cool movie about a PM&R doctor- thus open the public's eyes and really expand the field. It has to have all the components of a good movie- crashes, a driving story line, excitement, protray the PM&R doctor as a yoda-like character who everybody else turns to...

Does anybody have any ideas? Maybe I'll write a screenplay...

 

[topwise]

Well, there aren't any movies about PM&R docs, but there are movies about people undergoing rehab. There's even a movie about SCI rehab: the Waterdance.

 

[thewza]

Agreed. A PM&R movie would be fantastic. It seems that there are many topics in the field that could make for interesting cinema. On a related note, there is a medical movie playing in select theaters. It's called "Fighting for Life". It's about military doctors. As a current Navy doc, I'm excited about it. On a PM&R note, Dr Paul Pasquina, physiatrist from Walter Reed, is in the movie. You can see him in the trailer. Check it out!

http://www.fightingforlifethemovie.com/

 

[Sandooski]

there was a HBO doc last summer called COMA that followed TBI patients at JFK.... it was more about the patients and their families but showed the work of physiatrists and neuropsych with them (more neuropsych)

 

[Godzilla777]

And then there is Murderball...film about paraplegic rugby players. A couple scenes shot at Kessler Rehab with their physiatrists, notably Dr. Kirschblum

 

[caedmon]

Maybe a surprise feel good sequal to Million Dollar Baby. That might make some of the critics happy.

 

[priu]

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly!!!!!! Medically and 'physiatrically' accurate (or so from what I know of PMR as a medical student)!!

 

[PMR 4 MSK]

Don't forget the long rehab scene from "Born on the 4th of July." Shows you what rehab was like 40 years ago...

Seriously, before starting my residency, that's what I thought rehab was still like. Probably a lot of lay-people out there still do.