NOVA: Doctors' Diaries DVD

Comments about PBS NOVA: Doctors' Diaries DVD:

Excellent documentary. Very few scientific studies or documentaries are 21 years long. Being a dentist, I found it liberating to know that all of us in the medical profession pay a heavy price for being a doctor.

Comments about PBS NOVA: Doctors' Diaries DVD:

Better than any medical documentary or probably most fictional shows. An in depth ( as deep as 2 hours would allow) look at how the life of medical students change as they progress through the medical caste system. I am not sure whether or not it was the intent of the editors, but the film seems to focus on how the lives of these students were negatively impacted, making an effort to point out the many broken personal lives, unhappy spouses and the impressive number of divorces.

As a medical student about to begin my quest into first year, nothing has scared me more than the thought of this documentary becoming my life.

I think the take-home message here is either don't go into medicine or avoid anything but working in R.O.A.D. and for big pharm.

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A fantastic documentary of the long path to become a physician. It shows the challenges, successes, disappointments and maturation that occurs from first being a student to becoming senior staff. This is reality TV at its best. Nova has updated, repackaged but heavily shortened here in this third segment, content that was included in the first two segments of this series shown years earlier. Check your local library to see if those installments are available because they show much more of the saga than what has been condensed for release in this most recent edition.

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This program inspired me to call the local medical school and make arrangements to donate my body after my death to help educate bright, young medical students such as these.

Comments about PBS NOVA: Doctors' Diaries DVD:

I only saw a few minutes of this program, but found myself quite unable to leave. The in-depth interviews with the doctors from 1987 to the present, were touching and interesting. It also hit a personal note with me. In the film - in Jay Bonnar's "dairy" - when he is studying neurology at Beth Israel in Boston in '87, his attending is Dr. Charles Poser, M.D. If it may be believed, Dr. Poser is my grandfather. When I turned on the TV, to my complete disbelief, the first thing I saw was none other than my younger-looking grandfather. That beautifully restored student-attending consult that talked about Jay's loneliness and feelings of inferiority to his fellow students and doctors, was very moving and interesting. Not just for me, being Dr. Poser's grandson, but also this young man's powerful and relatable feelings.

Even though he is not very helpful or understanding towards Jay, in particular, it was interesting and rather heart-warming to see my then-sixty-three-year-old grandfather doing what he did so well. He was, and is still a great - but very grumpy - old man