Look up at the stars, keep your feet on the ground

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How to be a good doctor? As a doctor, you must be a listener and a carer. Hunter suffers from mild depression and goes to a sanatorium for treatment. But he found that many patients are not mentally abnormal, but no one cares about their problems. The hospital treats them like animals locked in a fence. They don't care or greet them. They only give food and formal medical treatment. The psychiatrist just asked questions like a questionnaire machine, without the attention of his eyes, and gave the patient a rather indifferent feeling. The experience in the nursing home made him aspire to be a doctor, so he enrolled in medical school in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The doctors in the medical school are limited by traditional concepts and are very impersonal. He disdains this state. He believes that laughter is the best prescription. He adheres to the concept of caring for the patient and putting the patient first. He always wants to bring happiness to the patient. The device pretends to be a clown, realizes some seemingly crazy ideas for the elderly, and reads the books he loves to the most difficult patients to gain his respect and love. Hunter pioneered the idea that doctors should treat people, not disease, and he firmly believed that empathy, engagement, and fellowship were as important to doctors as panacea and technological advancement. He firmly believes that the relationship between doctors and illnesses is also a kind of interpersonal relationship, and should not be emotionally cut as traditional textbooks say, but should be closely connected. So I think doctors should not just hide in ivory towers to do experiments, or prescribe drugs and operate, but should learn to get along with people as soon as possible, learn to listen and talk. A doctor's responsibilities are not limited to treating diseases, but to heal people first. What is the heart of medicine? Listening is the most important. What is a doctor? Give patients joy and hope. At the same time, doctors should have good medical skills, and professional study of medicine should not be ignored. The protagonist's excellent grades and the courage to challenge authority to promote a good doctor-patient relationship show that Hunter's innovation is based on his strong professional knowledge, which also makes me more aware of the importance of professional knowledge learning This is the premise of all innovative ideas. While having a spirit of questioning, professional learning cannot be underestimated. Just imagine, if doctors blindly focus on building a harmonious doctor-patient relationship and ignore professional learning, then who will treat the patient's disease? If the disease is not cured well, the harmonious doctor-patient relationship will not be created.

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  • Hunter Patch Adams: Last night with Rudy, I connected to another human being. I want more of that. I want to learn about people, help them with their troubles.

    Dr. Prack: That's what I do.

    Hunter Patch Adams: But you suck at it.

  • Joletta: [Joletta has just met Patch] Look here, Judy, another future boss.

    Hunter Patch Adams: Oh, I wouldn't look at it like that.

    Joletta: You may think I'm exaggerating, but in another five years you'll be so full of yourself you'll have to hang a cup out your ass just to catch the excess.