Doctors Diaries

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A documentary Doctors ' Diaries produced real-life stories of seven first-year medical students from Harvard University. The film shows emotions and mental stress that goes through medical students while becoming a doctor and how it affects them. Medical students choose medicine or pre-med as a career to help save people, but the challenges interns interfere with are their personal life and education. At first, the interns were excited about their future and then over time they became tired and damage in certain ways; Tom Tarter was one of the interns that had to go through their medical education, internship, and family life at 21 years old. At the beginning of the film, I thought each of the interns was going to be able to pursue their careers …show more content…

The Hippocratic Oath is meant to be for doctors to promise “to treat the sick to the best of one 's ability, preserve patient privacy, teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation, and so on. " as it says in the article of The Hippocratic Oath Today. As for Tom, he didn’t violate the Hippocratic Oath instead he stayed extra hours with his patients to make them feel like home. Tom was a big guy which the hospital saw that his weight was conflicting with his job which led to not renewing his contract. The hospital contradicts with the Bill of Rights by judging him from the way he looks. As a person said “don’t judge a book by the cover,” Tom said that some people don’t acknowledge him as a doctor but they don’t know that he graduated from …show more content…

Doctors had power toward their patients and their interns. As it shows in the book review of The Silent World of Doctor and Patients by Jay Katz; one of the interns said “There is a hierarchy in the hospital, on the top is the attending’s, then is the Chief residence, followed by interns and lastly is the three years’ medical students” and Katz said “Patients can 't trust their physicians to act in their interests…” Patients don’t have the mentality of making a medical decision on their own like an intern can’t make a surgery without an attending watching over them. The capability a patient and intern has is very little to benefit their outcome of health and

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