MED-School Students In The Film, Gross Anatomy, By David Shriner

In the movie “Gross Anatomy” the film takes you through the lives of five first year MED-school students. The movie gives us tons of perspectives on med school based on a very contrasting personality group. All would make it but one. After a serious of desperate motivations by David Shriner, out of fear and stress decides to take an amphetamine to improve his focus on his hours of study and school. Out of everyone he is the most driven and motivated, everything he did was fit into a tight schedule that consisted of little sleep. Yet despite this he seems to struggle the most. He begins falling behind on work and it was shown in his grades. He begins to break under stress and continues his risky amphetamine use. Eventually he falls down in class

with a serious health issue with his drug use. After council from the board he was voted to be kicked out of school. In some eyes such as Dr. Woodruff who quoted “Wanting to be a doctor doesn’t mean one should be a doctor”. I believe this is a fair judgement in David’s case. There was no doubt he was motivated. But under the pressure of real life situations I don’t think he is capable. And amphetamines can’t help you when someone’s life is in hand. A doctor has to learn to control stress on his own. A second chance in David’s perspective shouldn’t be given. His behavior is just impossible to change. All in all I feel like he was fairly treated when he was expelled.