Medical Ethics Law And Human Diversity: Dr. Cecile Williams
The Doctor
Medical Ethics Law and Human Diversity
Dr. Cecile Williams
The movie the Doctor is a good example of how communication in the health field should work. The main Character is Jack McKee, who is a heart surgeon. The movie begins by showing how Jack acts towards his patients. Jack always joked around with his patients, he always liked to down play the situation and never went out of his way to make his patients feel better or help them understand what was happening to their body. Jack like to joke about the patients condition which would leave the patient feeling more concerned and upset then they already were. His live at home was also struggling. His relationship with his wife and son were starting to fall apart because …show more content…
he was always working and never home.
Jack’s life then begins to take a turn for the worst when he starts getting sick and coughing up blood. He then goes to see a specialist named Lesley who tells him he has a growth on his throat and he needs to have a biopsy.
Jack is not use to being a patient, so he feels that because he is a Doctor at the hospital he is higher up then everyone including the patients. Jack had no choice but to just deal with his situation, he then begins radiation therapy for his tumor.
In the waiting room Jack meets a lady named June. She has a tumor in her brain and was there for radiation therapy. Jack starts to develop a very close relationship with June after hearing her story. Throughout the movie June made Jack understand that communication is important between the doctor and the patient and also understanding that patients are human beings and they deserve the respect just like everyone else. After, Jack finds out that the radiation did not work for him and he now has to get surgery to remove the tumor, he became very scared.
Jack was not use to being the person getting the surgery, he was always the one who performed the surgery’s. After the surgery he was unable to speak for a while and eventually he got his voice back. After returning back to work, Jack felt like a new person. His experience as being a patient changed his perspective on how to communicate with his patients
better.
This movie also has many ethical examples of how you should communicate with patients. For example, at the beginning of the movie, there was a lady whose husband was concerned with her staple marks on her chest from her surgery. Jack then began to make a joke telling her to tell her husband that she looked like a playboy centerfold and she had the marks to prove it. Jack thought it was funny to joke around with the patient but the patient was just more concerned and never really got an appropriate answer from him. If Jack had better communication skills he would of realized how concerned the lady was and he could of approached the situation better. I also feel that the specialist Lesley who Jack went to see for his throat could have had a better approach on telling him about his growth on his throat. She was very quick to deliver the bad news and did not make Jack feel comfortable or at ease at all.
I feel that she could have been a little more empathetic to his situation. Another communication problem was when jack wanted a second opinion and was put in a room with a man named Ralf, they were both getting two different procedures done and because of the miscommunication between the doctors, they began to perform the procedure on Jack instead of Ralf. That situation could have been avoided if there had been better communication between the doctors. These are just some of the communication skills that could have been avoided throughout the movie.
I believe that the experience of being a patient turned Jack into a better man. This made him more humble and understanding towards his patients. For example towards the end of the movie Jack really cared about one of his patients who he was about to perform a heart transplant on. Jack saw that he was just a genuine guy who had a family who loved and cared about him. Jack showed true concern and his communication with the family made them feel comfortable and reassuring. I believe that this movie showed how important communication skills are in the health field. Communication is the key to having a better health care environment. References:
1. The Doctor, Directed by: Randa Haines, Produced by: Laura Ziskin
2. En.m.wikipedia.org/The Doctor (1991 Film)
Medical Ethics Law and Human Diversity
Dr. Cecile Williams
The movie the Doctor is a good example of how communication in the health field should work. The main Character is Jack McKee, who is a heart surgeon. The movie begins by showing how Jack acts towards his patients. Jack always joked around with his patients, he always liked to down play the situation and never went out of his way to make his patients feel better or help them understand what was happening to their body. Jack like to joke about the patients condition which would leave the patient feeling more concerned and upset then they already were. His live at home was also struggling. His relationship with his wife and son were starting to fall apart because …show more content…
he was always working and never home.
Jack’s life then begins to take a turn for the worst when he starts getting sick and coughing up blood. He then goes to see a specialist named Lesley who tells him he has a growth on his throat and he needs to have a biopsy.
Jack is not use to being a patient, so he feels that because he is a Doctor at the hospital he is higher up then everyone including the patients. Jack had no choice but to just deal with his situation, he then begins radiation therapy for his tumor.
In the waiting room Jack meets a lady named June. She has a tumor in her brain and was there for radiation therapy. Jack starts to develop a very close relationship with June after hearing her story. Throughout the movie June made Jack understand that communication is important between the doctor and the patient and also understanding that patients are human beings and they deserve the respect just like everyone else. After, Jack finds out that the radiation did not work for him and he now has to get surgery to remove the tumor, he became very scared.
Jack was not use to being the person getting the surgery, he was always the one who performed the surgery’s. After the surgery he was unable to speak for a while and eventually he got his voice back. After returning back to work, Jack felt like a new person. His experience as being a patient changed his perspective on how to communicate with his patients
better.
This movie also has many ethical examples of how you should communicate with patients. For example, at the beginning of the movie, there was a lady whose husband was concerned with her staple marks on her chest from her surgery. Jack then began to make a joke telling her to tell her husband that she looked like a playboy centerfold and she had the marks to prove it. Jack thought it was funny to joke around with the patient but the patient was just more concerned and never really got an appropriate answer from him. If Jack had better communication skills he would of realized how concerned the lady was and he could of approached the situation better. I also feel that the specialist Lesley who Jack went to see for his throat could have had a better approach on telling him about his growth on his throat. She was very quick to deliver the bad news and did not make Jack feel comfortable or at ease at all.
I feel that she could have been a little more empathetic to his situation. Another communication problem was when jack wanted a second opinion and was put in a room with a man named Ralf, they were both getting two different procedures done and because of the miscommunication between the doctors, they began to perform the procedure on Jack instead of Ralf. That situation could have been avoided if there had been better communication between the doctors. These are just some of the communication skills that could have been avoided throughout the movie.
I believe that the experience of being a patient turned Jack into a better man. This made him more humble and understanding towards his patients. For example towards the end of the movie Jack really cared about one of his patients who he was about to perform a heart transplant on. Jack saw that he was just a genuine guy who had a family who loved and cared about him. Jack showed true concern and his communication with the family made them feel comfortable and reassuring. I believe that this movie showed how important communication skills are in the health field. Communication is the key to having a better health care environment. References:
1. The Doctor, Directed by: Randa Haines, Produced by: Laura Ziskin
2. En.m.wikipedia.org/The Doctor (1991 Film)