WIT

Many of Jean Watson’s Caritas should have been applied by the medical staff throughout the entirety of the patients battle with cancer. A patient being diagnosed with stage IV cancer can be debilitating however as displayed in the movie, Wit, the treatments can take away so much of the patient’s dignity, sense of self and inflict a great deal of pain and discomfort. From the beginning of the movie, the patient’s well-being was sacrificed by the physicians from the time of diagnoses of the…

The made for TV HBO Production movie Wit (2001) is a tale about Dr. Vivian Bearing, a prolific writer and English teacher that has fallen ill with advanced Ovarian cancer. She then has to adapt to losing her autonomy and being a living experiment to doctors who only see her a petri dish. The story is based on a play written by Margaret Edison that debuted in 1995. Characters include Dr. Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson) the pretentious Teacher, Dr. Jason Posner (Jonathan M. Woodward) the stunted…

In Wit , a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson, the audience witnesses Vivian Bearing’s journey, and hopeless battle with ovarian cancer. Edson uses a soliloquy as a tone used to reveal the feelings and emotional state of Vivian. She uses the soliloquy to give Vivian a chance to express how she is feeling and what she is thinking in every part of the play. By using the soliloquy, Edson manages to cite sympathy, rather than pity, in the audience by showing the constant struggle that…

Reflecting on the video WIT has given me more insight as to some of the things that really happen in the health care setting such as the hospital. After watching the video I can categorizes many of the things that I observed under “ professional ethics” and “unprofessional ethics”. Professional ethic according to my interpretation where the things that where done in the movie that was patient oriented, whiles unprofessional ethics are things that where in the interested of the providers rather…

“You have cancer.” These are the words that struck open the 2001 HBO adaptation of Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play about death and dying entitled, Wit. In this play, Margaret Edson powerfully exemplified what makes life worth living through the character’s exploration of one of the most unifying experiences in human race—mortality, while she also examines the vital importance of human relationships (Larson, 2015). Many medical flicks presented how the health care providers…

The film call Wits was released in 2006 and it portray the experience of a 17th century English poetry professor name Vivian Bearing who was diagnose with stage IV ovarian cancer. Dr. Kelekian was her clinician and researcher who proposed for her to receive an experimental eight course treatment of chemotherapy that was the only inform option provided to her. As the next few months are spent in the hospital, Vivian addresses the experiences that she encounters as patient whose dehumanized and…

Wit by Margaret Edson is a play about Dr. Vivian Bearing succumbing to advanced metastatic ovarian cancer. Edson herself has said that this is a play about grace. This theme is evident in Vivian’s gradual transition from graceless intellectual to gracious cancer patient; a transition which is accompanied by her finally understanding life and death from a human perspective, rather than a scholarly one. Edson uses literary foils and mirrors, the evolution of Dr. Bearing’s character, Vivian’s…

The play Wit, written by Margaret Edson, is full of intriguing characters that develop in their own ways throughout the play. Despite the many characters, there is one that really caught my attention. Susie, the nurse, is a character unlike any of the others. Edson gave her characteristics to separate her from the others and make her a standout character. Susie is the mother character of the play, meaning she is kind-hearted and caring, unlike the other characters. Throughout the play, Susie…

Vivian Bearing’s cockiness, lack of empathy, and thirst for knowledge are evident when she’s a professor. Her cockiness is evident in how she interacts with the audience, how she breaks the fourth wall, where she makes statements such as “Donne’s wit is...a way to see how good you really are. After twenty years, I can say with confidence, no one is quite as good as I” (20). However, she acknowledges how she, “the senior scholar ruthlessly denied her simpering students the touch of human kindness…

Nurses play a variety of roles in healthcare, and all of which are centered on the patient’s quality of care. In the film Wit, a college professor, Vivian Bearing, is diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic ovarian cancer. This film documents the physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion she undergoes while receiving chemotherapy treatment in a hospital facility. This patient was previously a well-distinguished academic, who by the end of the film is stripped of all of her humanity. As she…