Rarely heal, always care, always comfort

Sadye 2022-01-12 08:01:38

The film is full of humanistic care. As a former medical practitioner, I still have a good impression of this kind of film with medical practitioners as the protagonist, and I very much recognize a few of the concepts:

1. In the final analysis, many diseases are poor diseases, and poor diseases are social diseases that cannot be cured by doctors.

2. In the face of most patients, medicine is actually powerless. In this regard, although Red Beard is respected as a famous doctor, he himself is still very clear. Regardless of the era of the red beard, it is still today that most diseases are restored by self-immunity, and drugs and treatments can play a small role. Even from the perspective of evidence-based medicine, many drugs have negative effects.

3. Even so, doctors are still useful.

What is the value of the healer?

Rarely to cure, always to care, always to comfort.

What the healer needs is not only to heal the human body, but also to heal the human mind.

There are several important characters in the film, and I feel that everyone’s story can be made into a film:

1. Crazy rich lady: How did her father raise her, so that she was violated by her own store guys over and over again, and she couldn't make complaints. The scene of her dealing with the young doctor reminded me of "Instinct".

2. The woman who married her mother's lover: It was a tragic fate. Her mother was also very strange. She gave up her daughter in order to keep her lover, but this kind of case seems to still be reported in the news today. The sorrow of the old age, without economic freedom, there would be no personal freedom. She gave him three children, which was even more tragic.

3. The man whose wife escaped: This is also a tragedy. He and his wife are talking to each other. One day he suddenly went home and saw that his wife was gone. A few years later, I ran into each other on the street and found out that she had been married as another wife and gave birth to a baby. This woman is also quite weird. Why didn't she refuse at the first time, why she defected to others later, and why she committed suicide in the end? ?

4. A prostitute who was almost forced to sell herself: Although the scene of her wanting to buy a bowl through begging moved me, I still feel that to be loved, one must first love herself. Unfortunately, this kind of life is unworthy of praise for people who care about themselves.

5. The seven-year-old "Little Mouse" who stole things: His conversation was impressive, "I want to become a horse so that there is grass everywhere and I won’t go hungry." Later, the whole family hanged themselves. , Is also quite shocking. Let him die, or let him live humble, this is an unsolvable ethical question.

The university has a course "Medical Ethics", teachers and classmates do not pay attention to it, but I still like it. I always feel that the doctors we train always lack some humanistic care.

Today, the overall situation of society has been greatly improved, but there are still poverty, ignorance, disasters, and human physical and mental diseases are more complicated. We still have to uphold the principles of the year, rarely cure, and always care. It is to comfort.

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Extended Reading
  • Alta 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Kurosawa's films remind me time and time again of Dostoevsky and his broad Russian soul.

  • Freeda 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Oh my god... the solution can be so long... so procrastinating, just deduct one star for this. . . Is Toshiro Mifune an early uncle? . .

Red Beard quotes

  • Dr. Kyojô Niide: Medical science doesn't know everything. We know the symptoms and how things go. If the patient has a chance, we try to help. But that's about all.

  • Dr. Kyojô Niide: Nothing's so solemn as a man's last moments.