Doctors in Film: Which Movies Are Most Inspirational to You?

David Kerr, MD, discusses doctors in film and how films may inspire you or make you feel.

Hello. I'm David Kerr, professor of cancer medicine at University of Oxford. Today, I'd like to talk a little about the concept of doctors on film. There's awritten by one of our leading film movie reviewers, Anna Smith, in which she talks about the surprising deficit or lack of medicine in world cinema.

. When I was a wee kid growing up in Glasgow, we didn't have nursery, so my aunt Anne taught me to read. One of the books wasDoctor Finlay's Casebookwas my reading book when I was a tiny nipper in the backstreets of Glasgow. This was made into a film in the mid-1930s, with Robert Donat taking the lead. This was an idealistic, young Glaswegian doctor. Clearly, there's a large amount of self-identification going on here. If you read the book, you read my life story in some ways.

Then he takes up with a bit of a bad crowd in London and is subtly seduced into private medicine, quackery, and quasi-homeopathy in search of checks, guineas, and shiny women. What a fall from grace. Then, without wanting to give the plot away, he recovers himself. It is a fantastic melodrama.

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