Character Analysis Of Martin E. Blake, A Movie Review

In this movie, Martin E. Blake, a medical student transfer to Southern California Hospital to start his residency. Dr. Martin Blake is an individual who wants to be respected by people around him in the profession he is in. He wants to be respected often and he choose this career so that he can earn the respect he always expected. He begins to feel frustrated when he did not obtain the respect he wanted from a nurse who is supposed to obey him and be respectful towards him. He also begins to become conscious about his performances and his role about being a good doctor. He was blamed by the nurse for a patient’s allergy reaction as he was not responsible instead it was another nurse’s mistake who had messed vancomycin to be patient who was vancomycin allergy. Sooner, he begins to have low self-esteem about himself Besides, Dr. Martin also was affected and wanted some affection from someone. Later, he meets a patient by the name Diane, age 18 years old with kidney

Dr. Martin slowly starts building his relationship with Diane and he was afraid of her recovering and leaving him. So, he did some inappropriate acts such as changing her culture medium which is important for treatment purpose and medications to ensure she is not healing and stays at the hospital for treatment requirement. Dr. Martin was only intended to keep her by his side and was not bothered about her deteriorating health as consequences of his actions. One day, Diane got sick and he was having conversation with her. Later, when he realizes she had fall asleep, he kisses her without her consent. He sleeps outside Diane room that night and when he wakes up, he realizes that Diane was not there. He asked about her to the nurse and he screams at the nurse for not telling him. Later, he realizes that Diane had passed away and he gets broken. After some time, Dr. Martin still moves on with his life and treats the patients as his daily routine despite his