Top Five Movies about Medical School
October 3rd, 2008
Portraying real life stories is the basis of some movies. These films depict experiences about one’s sacrifices amidst armed conflict, endearing love relations, growing up adventures, stories on becoming a famous painter, and even facing challenges to succeed in a chosen career, such as becoming a doctor. True enough, attending medical school is quite challenging. To choose a medical vocation requires sufficient readiness and sufficient discipline. Check out these top five movies about medical school.
In 1934, Of Human Bondage
Phillip Carey returns to London to pursue medical studies after discovering his weakness in painting. He then falls deeply in love with an uneducated and controlling tearoom waitress Mildred who dislikes club-footed men. This experience leaves him to realize yet another distraction in his yet unperfected profession. Witness how Phillip endures medical school and overcomes the obstacles in building his career while confronting his obsession to her beloved Mildred.
In 1985, Bad Medicine
Jeffrey Marx applies into each medical school in the United States but is always turned down. Determined to dedicate his life to medical vocation, Jeffrey finds his way to a medical school somewhere in Central America. Aided by his fellow medical students from Madera Universidad de Medicina, they serve the entire impoverished village with medical assistance even prior to finishing medical school and being allowed to practice medicine.
In 1989, Gross Anatomy
Watch Joe Slovak, a character who never plays by the rules, as he makes use of his brilliance to outwit Dr. Woodruff and pass human dissections class even as his teacher maintains to question Joe’s presence in medical school. Also, because of Slovak’s persistent nature, his lab partner offers him enduring love.
In 1990, Vital Signs
The third year medical students from LA Central learn the facts of life as they compete among each other for the required internship. In the core of this perseverance, each one realizes that hospital life is not just a stage drama but real cases that require not just pure intelligence but also every beat of endurance to save lives including their own.
In 2000, Anatomy
Paula Henning dreamed for a place in the special summer course at the University of Heidelberg Medical School. Paula however starts to investigate why suspicious cadavers end up in dissection tables for anatomy class. Then she gets double survival challenge to end up finishing medical course and not to end up her own life by not being the subject of her own dissecting table.
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