Doctors on film

Doctors have been the heroes of action films, disaster movies, and thrillers—think Harrison Ford in The Fugitive, Naomi Watts in The Impossible, or Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut—but when it comes to films set in hospitals or surgeries, most fall into one of three genres: comedies, psychological chillers, or true life dramas. The last of those is a particularly rich picking ground, and it’s the subject of my first choice of favourite films about health and medicine.The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (1997) is a creative adaptation of the memoirs of Jean-Dominique Bauby (played by Mathieu Amalric), a journalist who had locked-in syndrome after a stroke. It’s an emotive insight into the power of the imagination and the inventiveness of speech and language therapists.My second pick is Awakenings (1990). Penny Marshall’s drama is based on the neurologist Oliver Sacks’s work with catatonic patients and features heartwarming turns from Robin…
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