Professionalism In The Movie Wit

The film “Wit,” directed by Mike Nichols is narrated from the perspective of an English professor, Vivian Bearing, after she is diagnosed with stage four metastatic ovarian cancer. She explains her experience with the doctors, other health professionals, as well as the institution, and the side affects the treatment has had on her both mentally and physically as she goes through her intensive chemotherapy. She explains feeling neglected and isolated. At one point, she makes a comment about how no matter what she is doing, whether she’s laying in bed too exhausted to move or vomiting in her bucket, the doctors always ask her how she is feeling. She felt that what the doctors and nurses had to say was very planned out and scripted that even if she were dead, they would still ask her how she was feeling.
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This is evident through Vivian’s experience in the movie, “Wit,” as it affects her in a negative manner. It leaves her feeling lonely and isolated, and essentially lifeless until she eventually dies. While going through her chemotherapy she documented her feelings both mental and physical, and there was no case where she was even happy. Professionalism in medicine forms the foundation for patient-physician trust, but because of set policies and procedures physicians need to follow the negative impacts because increased with their institutional care, as patients feel hopeless and neglected. Patient-physician care lacked the emotional connection and personal contact needed when going through treatment. There have been severe hesitations about professional power amongst commentators on physicians with institutional care. This leads to the belief that the biomedical model has authority figures holding too much power over patients and has them following too many set policies where patient care gets