TOP 10  MEDICAL MOVIES FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS

Most medical institutes do not practice“Cinemeducation”, which is why medical students are being encouraged to watch more movies, read more books, go to the theater, and attend more concerts if they want to become better all-around doctors with a good bedside manner. Medical students can learn about psychosocial topics relevant to medicine by watching and reflecting on movies through “Cinemeducation”.

 Medical movies for medical students can improve your general health, strengthen your immune system, and help you manage stress. Bring families and couples together. Bring families and couples together. Assist you in learning new skills. Learning new stuff is one of the most significant advantages of watching movies. By watching movies, the youngest can expand their vocabulary and learn a new language. You can learn about key issues and events by watching a decent documentary or an insightful historical drama. Also, watching movies can alter our perceptions of the people and events we see on a daily basis. By watching movies, we can learn new languages, learn about other cultures, learn about historical events, and much more.

Here are some lists of movies for medical students very much essential for aspiring medical and professional medical.

1. THE DOCTOR

Dr. Jack McKee works as a successful surgeon at a prestigious hospital. He and his wife, Anne, have all the trappings of success, however, Jack works so long hours that he rarely sees their son and has become emotionally distant from his wife. His “bedside attitude” with his patients, many of whom are critically ill, is also inadequate. The atmosphere in the operating room is relaxed, and the banter between him and his partner, Dr. Murray Kaplan, is less than professional. (When a patient with a breast scar comments that her husband wants to know if it will fade, Jack responds that she could tell him that she is similar to a “Playboy centerfold because she has the staple marks to prove it.”)

Jack suffers a coughing episode on his way home from a charity function. When he coughs up blood all over her and the car, his wife is taken aback. During an examination, a sample of growth from Jack’s throat is removed. The biopsy reveals that the patient has cancer. His time in this evaluation with another cold, impersonal surgeon marks the beginning of his metamorphosis. Further tests and disappointments are interspersed with scenes of other patients’ grace and understanding for one another, as well as a much clearer view of their doctors’ and medical support personnel’s delays and blunders.

As Jack goes through life as a patient, he acquires a better grasp of the emotional void that hospitals, some doctors, and even his own colleagues can exhibit. June Ellis, a fellow cancer patient with an incurable brain tumor, becomes his friend. She convinces him that he would never lie or mislead a patient again. Jack starts barking at the medical establishment. Jack and June set out to witness a Native American performance, but the pace is too fast for her. Meanwhile, his wife is perplexed by Jack’s relationship with June.

Cancer on Jack’s vocal cords is not cured by radiation therapy. His despair culminates in a confrontation with Dr. Leslie Abbott, the surgeon who is treating him and whom he provokes in a violent debate. Dr. Eli Bloomfield, a doctor he has previously mocked, agrees to perform the necessary operation for Jack. “Well, Jack, I’ve always wanted to slice your throat, and now I’ve had the chance,” Eli says with a smile after Jack apologizes for his and Murray’s rude actions. Eli’s bedside demeanor is an excellent model for Jack. Cancer on Jack’s vocal cords is not cured by radiation therapy. His despair culminates in a confrontation with Dr. Leslie Abbott, the surgeon who is treating him and whom he provokes in a violent debate. Dr. Eli Bloomfield, a doctor he has previously mocked, agrees to perform the necessary operation for Jack. “Well, Jack, I’ve always wanted to slice your throat, and now I’ve had the chance,” Eli says with a smile after Jack apologizes for his and Murray’s rude actions. Eli’s bedside demeanor is an excellent model for Jack. June dies, despite the fact that Jack’s cancer is treated and cured. The encounter alters Jack’s life forever. When he returns to work, he begins teaching incoming medical interns the value of displaying compassion and sensitivity to their patients, which will help them become better doctors. Jack dresses the interns in patient gowns, assigns them various ailments, and orders all of the tests so that they can “feel” the experience that their patients will soon be subjected to. This movie is a must-watch for every medical student.

Lessons To Learn From The Doctor.

• Treat your patients the way you want to be treated.
• Always provide comfort to the patient, but still at a professional level.
• Keep your feet grounded.
• Treat the patient, not the disease.
• That we would be doctors loved and not feared by patients.

Cast

• William Hurt as Dr. Jack McKee
• Christine Lahti as Anne McKee
• Elizabeth Perkins as June Ellis
• Mandy Patinkin as Dr. Murray Kaplan
• Adam Arkin as Dr. Eli Bloomfield
• Charlie Korsmo as Nicky McKee
• Wendy Crewson as Dr. Leslie Abbott
• Zakes Mokae as Dr. Charles Reed (uncredited).

The Doctor TRAILER 1991 VHS Screener

2. CRITICAL CARE

Critical  Care is a 1997 American Comedy film directed by Sidney Lumet. The film is a satire about American medicine.[1][2] The screenplay by Steven Schwartz is based on the novel by Richard Dooling and stars James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Anne Bancroft, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Wright, and Albert Brooks. Rick Baker provided 

special makeup effects. The film is about a doctor who finds himself involved in a fight with two half-sisters over the care of their ailing father.

Lessons To Learn From Critical Care

Cast

• James Spader … Dr. Werner Ernst
• Kyra Sedgwick … Felicia Potter
• Helen Mirren … Stella
• Anne Bancroft … Nun
• Albert Brooks … Dr. Butz
• Jeffrey Wright … Bed Two
• Margo Martindale … Constance “Connie” Potter
• Wallace Shawn … Furnaceman
• Philip Bosco … Dr. Hofstader
• Colm Feore … Wilson
• Edward Herrmann … Robert Payne
• James Lally … Poindexter
• Harvey Atkin … Judge Fatale
• Al Waxman … Lawyer Sheldon Hatchett
• Hamish McEwan … Dr. Hansen
• Jackie Richardson … Mrs. Steckler
• Barbara Eve Harris … Nurse Lucille
• Conrad Coates … Dr. Miller
• Bruno Dressler … Mr. Potter
• Caroline Nielsen … Nurse Luscious

Critical Care (1997) Trailer (VHS Capture)

* 3. RE-ANIMATOR

Herbert West resurrects his deceased professor, Dr. Hans Gruber, at the University of Zurich Institute of Medicine in Switzerland. However, there are horrifying side consequences; as West illustrates, the dosage was too high. When accused of murdering Gruber, West responds, “I gave him life!”. West attends Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, to continue his education as a medical student. He takes a room from fellow medical student Dan Cain and turns the basement of the house into his personal laboratory. West shows Dan his 

reanimating reagent by reviving Dan’s deceased pet, Rufus. Megan Halsey, Dan’s fiancée and the dean’s daughter at the medical school, walks in on the experiment and is appalled. Dan tries to tell the dean about West’s accomplishment in resurrecting the dead cat, but the dean is skeptical. When Dan insists, the dean suggests that Dan and West are insane. West and Dan are barred from attending school, so they sneak into the morgue to test the reagent on a human subject in an attempt to establish that the reagent works and therefore saves their medical careers. The corpse they inject reanimates but in a frenzied and violent zombie-like form. Dr. Halsey happens upon the scene and is killed by the reanimated body, which West then kills with a bone saw. West injects Dr. Halsey’s body with his reanimating reagent, ecstatic at the prospect of dealing with a freshly dead specimen. Dr. Halsey resurfaces, likewise in a zombie-like state. Megan stumbles into the incident and bursts out laughing. Dan collapses in disbelief. Dr. Carl Hill, a professor, and researcher at the hospital takes responsibility for Dr. Halsey and places him in a padded observation cell adjacent to his office. He performs a medical procedure on him, lobotomizing him. During the procedure, he realizes that Dr. Halsey is not sick, but rather dead and reanimated. Dr. Hill goes to West’s basement lab and blackmails him into handing over his reagent and notes in order to claim credit for West’s discovery. West offers to demonstrate the reagent by smearing a few drops of it onto a microscope slide containing dead cat tissue. As Dr. Hill examines this slide under the microscope, West clobbers him from behind with a shovel and then decapitates him with it. Dr. Hill’s head and body are then reanimated separately by West. Dr. Hill’s body creeps up behind West and knocks him unconscious while he is questioning his brain and taking notes. The body transports the head back to Dr. Hill’s office, accompanied by West’s reagent and notes. After doing brain surgery on other reanimated corpses, Dr. Hill gains the capacity to control them telepathically in his re-animated state. He then orders Dr. Halsey to seize Megan from Dan. Megan passes out while being brought to the morgue by her reanimated father. Dr. Hill strips her naked and binds her comatose body to a table when she arrives. As Hill’s body and bloodied, severed head continue to sexually abuse her, she regains consciousness. Hill begins to place his head between Megan’s knees, but the presence of West and Dan prevents him from doing so. While Dan frees Megan, West distracts Dr. Hill. Dr. Hill explains that he has reanimated and lobotomized some morgue corpses, making them vulnerable to mind control. Halsey is However, Megan’s voice reawakens her father’s protectiveness, and he fights off the other corpses while Dan and Megan flee. During the following commotion, West injects a deadly overdose of the reagent into Dr. Hill’s body. Dr. Hill’s body swiftly mutates and assaults West, who cries to Dan to rescue his work before being dragged away by Dr. Hill’s hideous guts. Dan takes out the sack that contains West’s reagent and notes. One of the reanimated corpses attacks and strangles Megan as Dan and Megan exit the morgue. Dan rushes her to the hospital emergency room and attempts to resuscitate her, but she is already dead. He injects her with West’s reagent in desperation. Megan, who appears to have been awakened, can be heard screaming after the image fades to dark.

Lessons To Learn From Re-animator

Cast

• Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West
• Bruce Abbott as Dan Cain
• Barbara Crampton as Megan Halsey
• David Gale as Dr. Carl Hill
• Robert Sampson as Dean Alan Halsey
• Al Berry as Dr. Hans Gruber
• Carolyn Purdy-Gordon as Dr. Harrod
• Ian Patrick Williams as the Swiss Professor
• Gerry Black as Mace
• Peter Kent as Melvin the Re-Animated
• Craig Reed as the One Arm Man Corpse a.k.a. the Burn Victim

Re-Animator (1985) Trailer

4. GROSS ANATOMY 

Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year medical school student whose nonconformist approach to life is tested when he enrolls in gross anatomy, the toughest course in med school. His school friends include Kim, a pregnant woman; Miles, a buttoned-down blue-blood; Laurie, an ambitious student determined to make it; and David, an over-analyzer who is also his roommate. Joe’s freewheeling, independent style creates funny moments in the classroom but puts him at odds with the demanding department head, Dr. Woodruff, who questions whether her easygoing “class rebel” has what it takes to be a doctor. Meanwhile, Joe falls in love with his lab partner Laurie, who won’t let anything, especially romance, interfere with her plans. And while Joe’s never done anything by the book, he proves he does have what it takes to succeed — without changing his ways. However, Joe’s ways and the ways of medicine come to a head when he is ordered to do an extra credit assignment by Dr. Woodruff involving a complex diagnosis. Joe correctly diagnoses it as a serious, difficult-to-treat chronic illness and learns the patient is Dr. Woodruff herself.

Lessons To Learn From Gross Anatomy

Cast[edit]

• Matthew Modine as Joe Slovak
• Daphne Zuniga as Laurie Rohrbach
• Christine Lahti as Dr. Rachel Woodruff
• Todd Field as David Schreiner
• John Scott Clough as Miles Reed
• Alice Carter as Kim McCauley
• Robert Desiderio as Dr. Banks
• Zakes Mokae as Dr. Banumbra
• Ryan Cash as Frankie Slovak

Gross Anatomy (1989) – Trailer

6. MASH

The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in South Korea receives two new doctors, “Hawkeye” Pierce and “Duke” Forrest, who come in a stolen Army Jeep in 1951. They are disobedient, womanizing, rule-breakers, yet they quickly prove to be superb battle surgeons. Bumbling commanding officer Henry Blake, his hyper-competent chief clerk Radar O’Reilly, dentist Walter “Painless Pole” Waldowski, the unskilled and pretentious surgeon Frank Burns, and the meditative Chaplain Father Mulcahy are all already stationed at the camp. The camp’s principal characters are divided into two factions. Irritated by Frank’s religious zeal, Hawkeye and Duke convince Blake to relocate him to another tent so that freshly arrived chest physician Trapper John McIntyre can take up residence. After being drafted into the Army, the three doctors (dubbed “Swamp Man” after the nickname for their tent) have little regard for military tradition and are prone to pranks, womanizing, and excessive drinking. Frank is a strict military officer who expects everything to be done efficiently and by the book, as is Margaret Houlihan, the 4077th’s senior nurse. The two form an unspoken relationship over their respect for rules and begin a covert romance. The Swamp Man, with the assistance of Radar, smuggles a microphone into a tent where the couple is making love and broadcasting their passion over the camp’s PA system, which embarrasses them and earns Houlihan the moniker “Hot Lips.” The next morning, Hawkeye provokes Frank into beating him, causing the latter to be sent from the camp for psychiatric examination. Later, while Hot Lips is bathing, the Swamp Man plays a joke on her by ripping the tent sides off and revealing her naked body to settle a bet: Is she a natural blonde? Hot Lips is enraged, yelling at Blake, who is in bed with Lt. Leslie, that the 4077th is not a hospital, but a “crazy asylum,” and that it is all his responsibility.

Lessons To Learn From Mash

Cast

• Donald Sutherland as Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce Jr.
• Elliott Gould as Capt. John Francis Xavier “Trapper John” McIntyre
• Tom Skerritt as Capt. Augustus Bedford “Duke” Forrest
• Sally Kellerman as Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan
• Robert Duvall as Major Frank Burns
• Roger Bowen as Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake
• René Auberjonois as Father Francis John Patrick “Dago Red” Mulcahy
• David Arkin as SFC Wade Douglas Vollmer
• Jo Ann Pflug as Lt. Maria “Dish” Schneider
• John Schuck as Capt. Walter “The Painless Pole” Waldowski, DDS
• Carl Gottlieb as Capt. John “Ugly John” Black
• Danny Goldman as Capt. Dennis Murrhardt
• Corey Fischer as Capt. Patrick “Band-Aid” Bandini
• Indus Arthur as Lt. Leslie
• Dawne Damon as Lt. Wilma “Scorch” Storch
• Tamara Horrocks as Capt. Bridget “Knocko” McCarthy
• Gary Burghoff as Cpl. “Radar” O’Reilly
• Ken Prymus as Pfc. Seidman
• Fred Williamson as Capt. Oliver Harmon “Spearchucker” Jones
• Michael Murphy as Capt. Ezekiel Bradbury “Me Lay” Marston V
• Timothy Brown as Cpl. Judson
• Bud Cort as Pvt. Warren Boone
• G. Wood as Brig. Gen. Charlie Hammond
• Kim Atwood as Ho-Jon
• Dale Ishimoto a Korean doctor
• Bobby Troup as Sgt. Gorman
• Marvin Miller as PA announcer
• Ben Davidson as Football opponent #88
• Sylvester Stallone as Soldier in Catering Area (uncredited)

MAS*H (1970) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers

7. The diving bell and the butterfly

The first third of the film is told from the main character, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), or Jean-Do as his friends call him, first-person perspective. The film opens as Bauby wakes from his three-week coma in a hospital in Berck-sur-Mer, France. After an initial rather over-optimistic analysis from one doctor, a neurologist explains that he has locked-in syndrome, an extremely rare condition in which the patient is almost completely physically paralyzed, but remains mentally normal. At first, the viewer primarily hears Bauby’s “thoughts” (he thinks that he is speaking but no one hears him), which are inaccessible to the other characters (who are seen through his one functioning eye).

A speech therapist and physical therapist try to help Bauby become as functional as possible. Bauby cannot speak, but he develops a system of communication with his speech and language therapist by blinking his left eye as she reads a list of letters to laboriously spell out his messages, letter by letter.

Gradually, the film’s restricted point of view broadens out, and the viewer begins to see Bauby from “outside”, in addition to experiencing incidents from his past, including a visit to Lourdes. He also fantasizes, imagining beaches, mountains, the Empress Eugénie, and an erotic feast with one of his transcriptionists. It is revealed that Bauby had been editor of the popular French fashion magazine Elle, and that he had a deal to write a book (which was originally going to be based on The Count of Monte Cristo but from a female perspective). He decides that he will still write a book, using his slow and exhausting communication technique. A woman from the publishing house with which Bauby had the original book contract is brought in to take dictation.

The new book explains what it is like to now be him, trapped in his body, which he sees as being within an old-fashioned deep-sea diving suit with a brass helmet, which is called a scaphandre in French, as in the original title. Others around see his spirit, still alive, as a “Butterfly”.

The story of Bauby’s writing is juxtaposed with his recollections and regrets until his stroke. We see his three children, their mother (whom he never married), his mistress, his friends, and his father. He encounters people from his past whose lives bear similarities to his own “entrapment”: a friend who was kidnapped in Beirut and held in solitary confinement for four years, and his own 92-year-old father, who is confined to his own apartment because he is too frail to descend four flights of stairs.

Bauby eventually completes his memoir and hears the critics’ responses. He dies of pneumonia ten days after its publication. The closing credits are accentuated by reversed shots of breaking glacier ice (the forward versions are used in the opening credits), accompanied by the Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros song “Ramshackle Day Parade”.

Lessons To Learn From The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Cast

• Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby
• Emmanuelle Seigner as Céline Desmoulins
• Anne Consigny as Claude Mendibil
• Marie-Josée Croze as Henriette Durand
• Olatz López Garmendia as Marie Lopez
• Patrick Chesnais as Dr. Lepage
• Max von Sydow as Mr. Bauby Sr.
• Isaach de Bankolé as Laurent
• Marina Hands as Joséphine
• Niels Arestrup as Roussin
• Anne Alvaro as Betty
• Zinedine Soualem as Joubert
• Emma de Caunes as Empress Eugénie
• Françoise Lebrun as Madame Bauby

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Official Trailer 1 – Mathieu Amalric Movie

8. THE LAZARUS EFFECT 

The Lazarus Effect is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by David Gelb and written by Luke Dawson and Jeremy Slater. The film stars Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover, Evan Peters, and Sarah Bolger. The film was released on February 27, 2015, by Relativity Media. It received negative reviews from critics but was a box office success, grossing $38 million worldwide against a budget of $3 million

Frank Walton (Mark Duplass) and his fiancée, Zoe McConnell (Olivia Wilde), are medical researchers who have created a serum code-named “Lazarus.” It was designed to help coma sufferers, but it has been proved to be capable of resurrecting the dead.

They run a successful trial on a recently deceased dog with the help of their friends Niko (Donald Glover), Clay (Evan Peters), and cameraman Eva (Sarah Bolger). They do notice, however, that the dog exhibits some unique psychological and physical occurrences after being revived by the serum: cataracts previously present in its eyes rapidly vanish, it loses its appetite, and it exhibits a variety of other weird abilities. Tests show that the serum, rather than evaporating, is concentrated within the dog’s brain, where it is causing new problems.

Their endeavor is halted when the head of their university learns about their underground experimentation. They are also notified that the business that financed their research has been purchased by a prominent pharmaceutical corporation. Everything related to the project is seized by the company and its attorneys. Frank and his colleagues sneak back into their lab to replicate the experiment in order to demonstrate that they invented the serum. Things go tragically wrong with this effort when Zoe is fatally electrocuted. Frank, unable to let her go, uses the serum to resuscitate her. The treatment looks to be a success at first, but the crew quickly recognizes that something is wrong with Zoe. She maintains that when she died, she went to her interpretation of Hell. This was a childhood nightmare: she observed trapped neighbors burning to death during a fire in her apartment building. As the drug begins to take effect, she begins to exhibit remarkable telepathic powers.

The substance allows brains to “evolve” extremely quickly, bestowing Zoe with superhuman abilities like telekinesis and telepathy. It also leads to greater rage and insanity. Eva is ultimately found by Zoe, who returns her to the Hell she went to when she died. Inside the nightmare, it is revealed that Zoe was the one who started the fire in the building, condemning her to Hell when she dies. Niko enters a room and is taken aback by Zoe. She utilizes telekinesis to throw him into a locker and crush it with him inside, killing him. She uses her new abilities to turn off the power to the entire lab. When Clay asks where Niko is, she kills him as well. By squeezing an e-cigarette down his throat and choking him to death Later, Zoe assassinates Frank as he tries to inject her with poison. Zoe then injects herself with the entire bag of serum, which boosts her skills. Eva, who is still alive and attempting to locate Zoe in order to inject her, is in the dark. Zoe eventually finds Eva, who appears to be able to escape and inject Zoe with the syringe, but this is an illusion; Zoe then murders Eva. She then injects Frank with her own serum-saturated blood, successfully resurrecting him.

Cast

• Mark Duplass as Dr. Frank Walton
• Olivia Wilde as Dr. Zoe McConnell
• Sarah Bolger as Eva McConnell
• Evan Peters as Clay
• Donald Glover as Niko
• Ray Wise as Mr. Wallace
• Amy Aquino as President Dalley

The Lazarus Effect Ultimate Undead Trailer (2015) – Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass Movie HD

9. AWAKENING 

Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a published novelist who collaborates with police to uncover bogus spiritualists in 1921. It is revealed that she lost her fiancé during World War I and that she “hunts” ghosts to try to bring him back. Robert Mallory (Dominic West), a teacher from a boys’ boarding school in Cumbria that was a private home until 20 years ago, pays her a visit. Robert reveals that there have been sightings of a child’s ghost at the school and that one of these sightings may have been the cause of a student’s recent death. Despite Florence’s initial refusal to assist Robert in his investigation, his compassion for the children is because she is an orphan herself, the boarding school, which he characterizes as being almost like an orphanage, prompts her to reconsider.

At the school, Florence encounters Maud (Imelda Staunton), the housekeeper, who informs her that she has read her books. Florence concludes, after conducting an investigation on her first night at the school, that the sightings are the product of a prank, as two students coerced a third into dressing up as a ghost. Concerning the recent death, one of the teachers admits that he forced the deceased child to stand outside the school to toughen him up after he claimed to have seen the ghost, terrifying the young kid and causing him to have a fatal asthma attack. Florence, Robert, Maud, and Tom (Isaac) are the only students left when the school closes for half-term. Florence is about to go after completing her task. She drops her cigarette case, which belonged to her lover, at the lake. As she reaches for it, a hand from the ocean reaches out to her. She regains her balance but then falls into the water. Although Florence assures them that it was an accident, Robert and Maud are concerned about her mental health. Florence does, in fact, opt to stay at the institution. She witnesses an apparition of a man with a shotgun who appears to shoot her after chasing what she believes to be the ghost. She also hears a child calling “Mowa Zee,” which she tells Tom was a nickname given to her by a group of Africans after she was rescued.

the lion who abandoned her as a child Florence and Robert had sex after growing closer. However, Edward Judd (Joseph Mawle), the groundskeeper who is envious of Robert because he is a military hero, becomes jealous and attempts to rape Florence in the woods. She kills Judd in self-defense, aided by a mysterious apparition. She then returns to school and informs Robert, who departs to bury Judd and thereby cover up the incident. Florence requests that Robert does not tell Tom what happened, but Robert informs her that there are no students in the school. Florence then realizes Tom is the spirit who haunts the school. Buried memories begin to surface, and she recalls living at the boarding school when it was a house. As a child, she witnessed her father murder her mother with a shotgun before attempting to murder her as well. Florence hid behind the house’s walls while her father chased her, shouting out for his “little Mousy.” Instead of pursuing her, her father assassinated Tom, who was discovered to be his illegitimate son. Her father then committed suicide in front of Florence. Florence, traumatized, had replaced these memories with those of her upbringing in Africa. Back in the present, Florence discovers that Robert can see the spirits of his former lovers. and friends who died in the war, and she concludes that ghosts appear to those who are extremely lonely. She also discovers that Maud was her nanny as a youngster, as well as Tom’s mother. Maud explains that she invited Florence to the school in the first place because Tom missed her. Maud then poisons herself and Florence with the intention of having their ghosts join Tom. Florence warns Tom that if she dies now, her soul will not rest, so Tom brings her medicine.

Cast

• Rebecca Hall as Florence Cathcart
• Dominic West as Robert Mallory
• Imelda Staunton as Maud Hill
• Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Thomas “Tom” Hill
• Lucy Cohu as Constance Strickland
• John Shrapnel as Reverend Hugh Purslow
• Shaun Dooley as Malcolm McNair
• Joseph Mawle as Edward Judd
• Anastasia 
• Hille as Dorothy Vandermeer

Awakenings (1990) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers

10. PATCH ADAMS 

In 1969, Hunter “Patch” Adams is suicidal and admits himself to a mental institution. Once there, he finds that using humor, rather than doctor-centered psychotherapy, better help his fellow patients and provides him with a new purpose in life. Because of this, he wants to become a medical doctor, and two years later enrolls at the Medical College of Virginia (now known as VCU School of Medicine) as the oldest first-year student. He questions the school’s soulless approach to medical care, particularly why students don’t work with patients until their third year, as well as the methods of the school’s Dean Walcott, who takes an instant dislike to Patch and believes that doctors must treat patients his way and not befriend them. Because of this and incidents such as setting up a giant model paper-mâché pair of legs in stirrups during an obstetric conference, he is expelled from the medical school, although he is later reinstated when it becomes apparent to the school that his unconventional methods often improve his patient’s health. Adams encourages medical students to work closely with nurses, learn interviewing skills early, and argues that death should be treated with dignity and sometimes even humor.

Patch begins a friendship with fellow student Carin Fisher and, during their third year as medical students develop his idea for a medical clinic built around his philosophy of treating patients using humor and compassion. With the help of Arthur Mendelson, a wealthy man who was a patient whom Patch met while in the mental hospital, he purchases 105 acres (42 hectares) in West Virginia to construct the future Gesundheit! Institute. Together with Carin, medical student Truman Schiff, and some old friends, he renovates an old cottage into a clinic. When they get the clinic running, they treat patients without medical insurance and perform comedy sketches for them.

Patch’s friendship with Carin soon turns into romance. When she tells him that she had been molested as a child, Patch comforts her and reassures her that she can overcome her pain by helping others. Encouraged, Carin wants to help a disturbed patient, Lawrence “Larry” Silver. However, Larry murders Carin and then commits suicide. The patch is guilt-ridden by Carin’s death and begins to question the goodness in humanity. Standing on a cliff, he contemplates suicide again and asks God for an explanation. He then sees a butterfly that reminds him that Carin had always wished she was a caterpillar that could turn into a butterfly and fly away. The butterfly lands on his medical bag and shirt before flying away. With his spirits revived, Patch decides to dedicate his work to her memory.

Walcott eventually discovers that Patch has been running a clinic and practicing medicine without a license and attempts to expel him again because of this, as well as complaints that he has made his patients uncomfortable (which is obviously not true). Desperate to prove Walcott wrong, Patch files a grievance with the state medical board on the advice of his former medical school roommate, conservative Mitch Roman. Patch succeeds in convincing the board that he must treat the spirit as well as the body. The board, although they still find some of his methods questionable, allows him to graduate and he receives a standing ovation from the packed hearing room.

At graduation, Patch receives his diploma and, bowing to the professors and audience, reveals himself to be naked underneath his gown.

Cast

Robin Williams as Dr. Hunter “Patch” Adams, initially a mental patient, who wishes to change the way doctors think and treat their patients.

Daniel London as Truman Schiff, Patch’s best friend, and most loyal follower, in medical school.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Mitch Roman, Patch’s uptight roommate, initially clashes with Patch, but later joins his cause.

Bob Gunton as Dean Walcott, rigid dean of the Medical School, who locks horns with Patch right from the start.

Monica Potter as Carin Fisher, a serious medical student, is later touched by Patch’s passion.

Frances Lee McCain as Judy, a nurse at the hospital

Irma P. Hall as Joletta, a nurse at the hospital

Josef Sommer as Dr. Eaton, professor at the Medical School, does appreciate Patch’s efforts.

Harold Gould as Arthur Mendelson, a wealthy mathematician who is in the mental hospital, initially coins Patch’s nickname.

Bruce Bohne as Trevor

Harve Presnell as Dean Anderson, head of the Medical School; is more tolerant of Patch than is Walcott.

Michael Jeter as Rudy, Patch’s roommate at the mental hospital, who is sciophobia (fear of squirrels).

Cast

Barry Shabaka Henley as Emmet

Harry Groener as Dr. Prack, a humorless doctor at the mental hospital who is a colleague of Dean Walcott.

Richard Kiley as Dr. Titan, chair of the State Medical Board

Ryan Hurst as Neil

Ellen Albertini Dow as Aggie Kennedy, a sickly old lady in the hospital, whose childhood dream is to swim in a pool of noodles.

Peter Coyote is Bill Davis, a dying, ill-tempered patient in the hospital who eventually bonds with Patch and accepts his fate with dignity.

Alan Tudyk as Everton

Dot-Marie Jones as Miss Meat (credited as Dot Jones)

Douglas Roberts as Lawrence “Larry” Silver, a mentally disturbed patient whom Carin tries to help, but he later murders her before taking his own life.

Norman Alden as Truck Driver

James Greene as Bile

Greg Sestero as Jaime (Carin’s Brother) (Uncredited)

Ralph Peduto as Organizer.

Patch Adams Official Trailer #1 – Robin Williams Movie (1998) HD

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