The movie “The Doctor” is a 1991 movie all about a successful but egocentric doctor who doesn’t

care about his patients’ feelings. He is a self- centered individual who later on change due to his
personal experiences. I have only seen this movie and wanted to give an honest opinion about it.

Dr. Jack McKee (the main character) is a successful surgeon in a leading hospital. He rarely
has time for his family for he is a busy and workaholic person. He also lacks manners towards his
patients. The decorum in the operating theater is very casual and lacks professionalism. Returning
home from a charity event, Dr. McKee has a coughing fit. He coughs up blood and shocked his wife
Anne. He went to an examination and discovered a tumor in his throat. The biopsy comes back
positive for cancer. His time spent with a not so good treatment of his doctor towards him leads to
his transformation. He experience more disappointments from his therapy. He have seen a lot of
scene and empathy from fellow patients and have much better view of the delays and missteps of
their health care workers. As Dr. McKee experiences the life of being a patient, he then understands
the emotional states of the patients. He have got a friend, June Ellis, a fellow cancer patient who has
a brain tumor. She made him promise not to lie or mislead patients again. Dr. McKee and June took
off to a Native American show, but the pace is too much for her. Anne (Dr. McKee’s wife)
misunderstood her husband’s relationship to June. Dr. McKee’s treatment did not go well, therefore
he have gone to surgery. He asks a fellow surgeon whom he ridiculed before to do his surgery and
asks forgiveness for how he acted before. Dr. McKee’s cancer have been treated but June died.
Everything leads to his complete change. He then teaches the medical interns about the importance
of compassion and sensitivity towards their patients. Dr. McKee puts the interns into a patients
situation and made them experience how to be in the shoes of the patients for them to learn and
have a deeper understanding about it.

The casts of the movie did a good job. They played their roles well and expresses the feelings
of the story very well. It really reaches through the hearts of the audiences. William Hurt who played
the main character Dr. Jack McKee did a very nice act on playing his role for he have delivered fully
the main point of the story.

There are a lot of parts in this movie that I like. But there is this one scene that I like the
most, it is when Dr. McKee showed how he changed a lot out of his experiences. During a surgery of
an Indian man in the movie, he showed a compassion to his patient. He showed how he cares a lot
to his patient and to the patient’s family. The scene that I dislike the most is when a patient with a
chest scar mentions her husband wants to know if the scar will go away, Dr. McKee responds that
she should tell him that she is just like a “Playboy centerfold, because she has the staple marks to
prove it.” I can see the disappointment and hurt feelings from the patient. Dr. McKee in that scene
doesn’t care about the emotional state of his patient.

This story is a very good example of the golden rule: “Don’t do unto others what you don’t
want to do unto to you.” Here we will learn how important this golden rule is. We should be
sensitive towards others and adjust ourselves for the common good. We should not think only of
ourselves because there will always be a time that we are the one who needed something from
others.

This movie will be liked by everyone especially by the elders as it shows a lot of lesson that
they could teach to the young ones. I would recommend this movie to my fellow youth for them to
learn and appreciate well the golden rule and many more. I would not want to recommend this
movie to children especially when there are no parents or elderlies around them. They may
misinterpret some scenes in here and it may result them to fear doctors and hospitals. This movie is
a rated PG film who requires parental guidance for children who are watching. My final opinion for
this film if it is good or not, I would say it is a good movie who teaches everyone a moral lesson that
they could carry on their whole lives.

If I will be rating this movie from 1 to 5 where 1 is the lowest and 5 is the highest, I will give it
a big high 5. This movie deserves to have a rate of 5 for the roles are played so well, the lesson of the
movie is delivered very well, and the emotion of the movie is well delivered.