The Doctor Movie Essay
The Doctor” is a movie showcasing the transformation of a cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Jack McKee from being an arrogant, apathetic clinician to a clinician with regard and empathy for his patients. Throughout the movie, an enormous lack of patient centered communication and empathy towards patients can be noticed as well as improper clinician bedside manner and professionalism. One scene that showcases the lack of patient centered communication is when Dr. McKee enters a patient room where the patient has just recently undergone a major chest surgery and clearly looks concerned. Dr. McKee does not properly welcome the patient or introduce himself, and simply goes up to her and opens her gown exposing her bare chest without informing her. Dr.
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They are vulnerable and it is the clinician's responsibility to make a patient feel at ease and show the patient that they will be properly taken care of. From personal experience, every clinician experience I have encountered has not necessarily been perfect but I have always felt listened to and properly treated. If i was a patient or was with a patient that was treated with such disregard and disconcern as showcased in the movie, i would be discouraged from ever going back to the hospital. Had i been in a stretcher being rolled around the hospital to get a biopsy and overheard doctors talking about patients like they were just bodies, i would have been very disheartened. We are all humans, we want to be listened to, we have rightful emotions and concerns and want our clinician who we trust with curing us to just simply hear and understand these concerns. The mere 2 minute conversation scene that is shown in the end of the movie when Dr. McKee speaks to the heart transplant patient is all it takes for a patient to feel at ease and it makes all the difference. The transformation that Dr. McKee undergoes in this movie shows how important it is for clinicians to hear, understand and simply empathize with patients in accordance with treating them as an all around patient and not just a single
They are vulnerable and it is the clinician's responsibility to make a patient feel at ease and show the patient that they will be properly taken care of. From personal experience, every clinician experience I have encountered has not necessarily been perfect but I have always felt listened to and properly treated. If i was a patient or was with a patient that was treated with such disregard and disconcern as showcased in the movie, i would be discouraged from ever going back to the hospital. Had i been in a stretcher being rolled around the hospital to get a biopsy and overheard doctors talking about patients like they were just bodies, i would have been very disheartened. We are all humans, we want to be listened to, we have rightful emotions and concerns and want our clinician who we trust with curing us to just simply hear and understand these concerns. The mere 2 minute conversation scene that is shown in the end of the movie when Dr. McKee speaks to the heart transplant patient is all it takes for a patient to feel at ease and it makes all the difference. The transformation that Dr. McKee undergoes in this movie shows how important it is for clinicians to hear, understand and simply empathize with patients in accordance with treating them as an all around patient and not just a single