28
Days
VHS Tape from Columbia/Tristar Studios
starring Sandra Bullock
directed by Betty Thomas
Published: 02 April, 2002
Awakenings
VHS Tape from Columbia/Tristar Studios
starring Robert De Niro, Robin Williams
directed by Penny Marshall
Published: 04 February, 1997
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
VHS Tape from Warner Studios
starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher
directed by Milos Forman
Published: 13 March, 2001
Gifted
Hands
by Ben Carson, Cecil Murphey
Mass Market Paperback from Zondervan
Published: 08 December, 1996
The
Doctor
DVD from Buena Vista Home Vid
starring William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins
directed by Randa Haines
William Hurt is perfectly cast as an arrogant surgeon
who treats patients like interchangeable cogs in the machinery of his medical
practice. Then he is diagnosed with throat cancer and, as the title of
the memoir on which it is based tells us, he gets a taste of his own medicine.
The subplot involves the solidarity between doctors, which is shattered
when the newly conscious physician discovers that one of his partners (Mandy
Patinkin) is trying to cover up a case of malpractice. Hurt is solid, as
is Wendy Crewson as the doctor who treats him and Elizabeth Perkins as
a fellow cancer patient. Interestingly, Hurt's fellow actors Patinkin,
Adam Arkin, and Christine Lahti all wound up playing doctors on TV's Chicago
Hope. --Marshall Fine - Amazon.com
Published: 24 February, 2004
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