The Physician (2013)

What is your expectation before watching the movie?

My expectations for this movie base on the title that is about medical
related story where I can relate as a medical course student and I’m expecting
that we can get a lesson at the end of the movie that we can relate or my apply
it in our life as we conquer our struggles and hardships. Also I expect it to be a
good quality movie, the flow of the movie and the production of it.

What are the technological advances presented in the movie?

A set of medical tools were used when they visited a different barber to
treat the cataract, as depicted in the movie. He got access to books for studying
medicine when he attended Ibn Sina's school in Isfahan. When doing surgery at
the school, they follow sanitary standards. They also use terminology that is
widely used today.

How did the society react or respond to this advances?

Before, people believed that getting medical attention amounted to
practicing black magic. Typically, people respond violently. Religion and medicine
are at odds with one another. By claiming that witchcraft exists, the church or a
particular religion is limiting the development of that religion.

What is the best part of the movie for you and why?
The best part for me is when the orphan Rob is alone and he follows a
traveling barber-surgeon that teaches him how to cure the needy. When the
barber is blind with cataract. Rob Cole seeks out a Jewish physician that recovers
the barber's vision. Rob Cole decides to learn medicine with the famous Ibn Sina
in the distant Persia

What part of the movie you least like and why? 

When Rob's mum passed away. Since it is only the beginning of the film,
it is the scene I dislike the most. It is difficult to watch your mother die. Because
of the priest that turned down the assistance as well since he claimed it was
witchcraft. As we all know every children young or adult suffer when their
parents die, you don’t know where to get your strength if they are not with you
anymore.

Gillian Mae H. Casipit

BSN 1-K