oh, sorry! I sometimes forget that our super-duper access doesn't work for everyone...
A few bits that amuse me (besides the mere notion of someone sitting down to watch 131 movies with doctors as protagonists, and analyze them):
The Wedding Planner (2001) features Dr Steve Edison (Matthew McConaughey) as a paediatrician who is engaged to another woman but eventually calls off the marriage because he has fallen in love with his wedding planner, Mary Fiore (Jennifer Lopez). This maudlin, forgettable film is noteworthy for Edison inexplicably hospitalising the adult Fiore on a paediatric ward and using a paediatric cervical collar after Fiore suffers a concussion and loss of consciousness, and for Edison mentioning that he had to attend a diverticulitis seminar, a conference of doubtful utility to a paediatrician.
and (under "Humour: Intended and Unintended):
When you need a doctor who "really kicks butt", R Wesley McLaren, PhD, MD (Steven Seagal) is your man (fig 2). In The Patriot (1998), McLaren heads up the Montana Wellness Center, specialising in family practice and holistic therapy. In addition, he is a Native American cowboy, single father, and former world famous government immunologist. When a paramilitary extremist releases a "highly contagious viral agent" called NAM 37 that has "10 times the potency of anthrax", McLaren must develop a "cure" and fight extremists in hand-to-hand combat and with firearms. Among the more unintentionally humorous segments are McLaren diagnosing a patient with "severe oedema of the abdomen and liver" before palpating the patient’s abdomen, using a light microscope to examine the virus, developing a treatment for the virus in an evening’s work which almost instantly cures patients, and McLaren killing the paramilitary chief with the stem of a wineglass, then doing a flip through a plate glass window, holding his rescued daughter wrapped in a blanket. The "cure" is derived from a traditional Native American herbal therapy, and consists of a tea or injection of a red flower distillate. A whole army troop is shown collecting red flowers in biohazard gear, and the entire community is saved when US Army helicopters shower the town with red flower petals, which inhabitants are instructed to use to treat themselves with cups of tea.
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Date: 2004-12-10 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 07:22 am (UTC)A few bits that amuse me (besides the mere notion of someone sitting down to watch 131 movies with doctors as protagonists, and analyze them):
and (under "Humour: Intended and Unintended):
There are also top-10 lists.