If you are a student of medicine, nursing, or any other career that is related to health sciences, Docsity brings you a number of interesting and inspiring films for study breaks
This list is a bit of everything: from doctors who made history by dealing with patients, medical students who overcame great obstacles to become great doctors or surgeons, everyday patients, alternative methods and alternative medicine , real cases, the controversial euthanasia, etc.
You can see them right here just have to go to the movies section
1. Awakenings (1920)
Awakenings is based on the autobiography of neurologist Oliver Sacks, who in 1969 discovered the temporary positive effects of L-dopa in catatonic patients, survivors of the epidemic of sleeping sickness that occurred from 1917-1928, leaving millions of deaths worldwide .
In the film, the protagonist is Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) whose research is based on experimentation with worms. Through this research and work in a hospital in New York, Malcom begin to investigate the causes and effects of the disease remains catatonic a number of patients in this hospital, suffering mainly Parkinson's disease aggravated. Thanks to one of his patients, Leonard Lowe (Robert de Niro), Dr. Sayer will conduct a series of experiments with good results, but not for long.
2. Sicko (2009)
Michael Moore returns to the fray with a documentary that denounces the US healthcare system; a system that, in the absence of universal health care, excludes 50 million US (who either have no private health insurance or can not afford it) and is based primarily on private companies seeking financial gain and insurers that pay bonuses employees who provide them more profitable to deny benefits and claims to policyholders.
3. The World in His Arms (2010)
Original title: Gifted Hands
Produced for television movie tells the story of Dr. Ben Carson. Ben Carson had very little chance to succeed in life. Son of separated parents, raised in poverty and surrounded by racial prejudice, an irascible child and became a bad student. Still, his mother, who always believed in him, encouraged his imagination, intelligence and, above all, confidence. It was this faith that enabled him to become one of the best neurosurgeons in the world.
This film is an inspiration to all who do not think they can push through a career in medicine, as sometimes willpower and faith overcome any barriers.
4. 4th Floor (2003)
The film is about four teenagers who agree on the oncology floor of a hospital. Thanks to his youth, joy and why not, to his antics, manage to make more bearable your illness and life of those around them.
In this film themes are the order of the day between plants oncology hospitals and families affected by cancer, such as aggressive treatments, if the mood influences or not of the disease are treated, whether it should be take into account not only cure the disease, but the quality of life of patients, etc. Very endearing film, but crude at a time.
5. Patch Adams (1998)
Patch Adams is more than a film, is the story of a medical record, a doctor who is not, or behave or think like any other doctor you've known. To Patch Adams humor is the best medicine, and is willing to do anything to make his patients laugh, even risking his career.
This film is based on the true story of Patch Adams, a person who decided to put his bit to make this world a better, exercising the profession that did best, medicine.
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams, also known as Doctor "laughter therapy", founded the Gesundheit Institute! in 1972, which each year organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to different countries, dressed as clowns, in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients and others.
5. Do not Know Jack (2010)
Original title: You Do not Know Jack
Biopic about Dr. Jack Kevorkian,"Doctor Death". Since the early 90s has been the most representative figure in the debate on euthanasia. After work in more than 130 cases of assisted suicide, it became a media figure who was involved in endless legal battles, in which he defended the right to die of their patients.
In the 1980s he wrote a series of articles about his stance on euthanasia. In 1987 it was announced in the newspapers of Detroit offering himself as physician to the "orientation to death". This earned that in 1991 the state of Michigan will revoke his medical license, so it could not exercise their profession or treat patients.
7. That nothing Attraction (1995)
Original title: The Cure
During one summer, a child, a rebel therefore meets his neighbor, whom others would take a fool. The neighbor in question is an 11-year-old AIDS patient because of a transfusion. Gradually, both children become inseparable and more about finding a cure for the patient, based on, first, all kinds of sweets; Second: all kinds of plants and herbs.
This film highlights the fact that in modern medicine, sometimes forget the need for a more humane treatment, and perhaps a little more involvement from the professionals, because if a teenager is able to all this, a doctor could do much more.
8. Extraordinary Measures (2010)
John Crowley (Brendan Fraser), originally working-class, finally succeeded taste success in the American business world. Supported by his beautiful wife Aileen (KERI RUSSELL) and their three children, John began his career toward success. But when it begins to take off, is forced to stop after learning that her two young children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with a fatal disease.
With his wife always by his side, John is associated with a brilliant scientist, but unappreciated and anti-conventional, Dr. Robert Stonehill (HARRISON FORD). Led by different reasons, together create a biotech company, where on one hand you want to find a cure to save the lives of their children and the other seeks to achieve prove himself and his scientific theories. This strange alliance ends leading to a mutual respect as they battle the medical and business system.
9. The English Surgeon (2010)
What feels a medical professional when surgery is facing ?. How is able to channel that supreme power to save lives and in turn, the dramatic risk that a patient dies in the operating table? ...
Magnificent documentary that gets into the skin Henry Marsh, a seasoned English neurosurgeon, in one of his regular trips to Ukraine to meet patients suffering from serious brain disorders. Despite having limited means, he and the team of doctors working in the hospital strive to provide solutions and hope to desperate patients with the disease.
10. Awake (2010)
Can you imagine being on a surgical table, about to be operated, and despite being fully anesthetized're able to feel and hear everything as if you were awake?
This experience is called consciousness with memories or intraoperative awareness. This is where the patient is conscious when undergoing surgery, regardless of which have anesthetized. The patient feels pain, hear the conversations of doctors who are operating and can not move. A whole torture.
For in this film reflects this experience. Clay (Hayden Christensen) is a young boy from a family of billionaires. Clay knows he is not long to live, and who suffers from heart problems and should undergo a transplant immediately. He lets his best friend, Dr. Jack Harper (Terrence Howard), is in charge of making the complicated operation. But something goes wrong during the operation, and will be when Clay account is given many things regarding your own life.
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