Doctor Mckee Character Model

As health care providers, professionalism, respect and empathy should play an essential role in our daily routine. These core values allow us as health care providers to demonstrate understanding, compassion, and appreciation for our patients and their experiences. Utilizing these virtues will allow for an experience that will make the patient feel respected, valued and wanting to return.

developing a rapport with ones patients and that a little compassion and understanding can mean the world to a

All too often in regards to medical treatment, physicians are taught everything known about the scientific approaches to disease but still fail to realize the important details of how the disease impacts the individual. Many physicians do not show empathy to their patients and instead just focus on the current diagnosis and the probable outcome. This creates a divide between patient and provider and can even lead to negative feelings of the patient that far outweigh the diagnosis itself. A feeling of hopelessness and despair may accompany the empty feeling that comes with failing to explore the patient’s perspective on care. In this essay, Parrish states,

The movie “The Doctor” takes an intimate look at the life of a surgeon who is immensely detached from his patients and often acts callously towards his patients and even his family. The arrogance and heartlessness that are seen in the beginning of the movie slowly become subdued when Jack McKee finds out that he has a malignant tumor. The diagnosis of the life-threatening tumor forces Jack to reevaluate his life and in turn allows Jack to see life from the perspective of a patient. The differences in McKee’s character are abundantly evident but one of the best examples of how much he truly changes are how starkly different the opening scene in the surgery suite is as compared to the final scene in the surgery suite. When the movie opens

The importance of empathy in any helping profession, medical or social, cannot be overstated. The workers that exemplified it in their practice did the best that they could with their limited resources.

Medical ethics could be considered a really broad spectrum that dictates the healthcare system. Defined as a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine. This however, can become quite tricky when deciding what is morally correct to one person to another. The movie Patch Adams deals firsthand with an aspect of medical ethics. The movie displays Robin Williams as the main character, Patch Adams, as a medical student who believes treating patients with happiness is the best way to help them. (Patch Adams, Tom Shadyac)

Defined by a physician’s understanding of their patient’s perspective, physician empathy enhances a patient’s perception of being helped, improves patient feelings of empowerment, and increases patient perceptions of a social support network. (source 4) Studies have shown that when physicians are running low on empathy, patients take significantly longer to recover from illnesses and become less likely to follow treatment recommendations, suggesting an inverse relationship between the prevalence of burnout and measures of patient satisfaction with medical care. (source 5) Decreased feelings of empathy and a diminished relationship between the doctor and the patient has also been proven to lead to patient neglect in which healthcare staff fail to maintain the standards of optimal patient care. Such findings highlight the importance of burnout to leaders of the medical field and to administrators that have responsibility for the workplace environment. (source

The patient's idea of the physician is in contrast to the narcissistic patient's contempt, and disregard for the physician, who is keeping a sense of superiority over illness. Only the most senior physician in

In the 1991 film The Doctor, we are led through the life journey of a heart surgeon, Jack McKee. After being faced with terrible news regarding a malignant tumor on his vocal cords, Jack 's experiences as a patient for the first time changes his perspective of how he views the world, as well as treating patients as a whole. Through this journey we see a huge transition in Jack 's demeanor as the roles are switched and he sees through the lives of his patients.

Without a doubt, medical students will encounter patients that are less than pleasant to deal with and situations that are not ideal. As a medical scribe I have encountered a few myself. On one instance, I was part of a care team for a psychiatric patient who harbored negative views towards Hispanics and wished to "kill them all". Despite his views and constant belittling remarks, I assisted in his care as best as I could and remained courteous, professional, and objective during his stay in the ER. This was not the first time I faced such situations, and it will undoubtedly not be the last. I am aware, however, that is is important for medical students and physicians alike to place their personal views to the side in order to treat patients and offer them the best health outcomes possible.

The first thing that stood out most for me during Mr. Ariely presentation “Our Buggy Moral Code” was when he told his story about being a patient in the burn unit and when he went back to talk to the nurses that took care of him. This was intriguing to me because as healthcare providers who tend to think we know what is best and how to achieve those task in the best manner. When questioned by someone especially a patient about maybe doing the task differently, you almost have an arrogant demeanor and scoff at what they suggest. Some healthcare providers later on, away from the patient even state “well since they are such an expert why did they come here for us to do it”. This is such an atrocious response, I think as individuals when we do

While examining the interpersonal interactions between doctors and patients it is clear that doctors completely control the talk time. Doctors ask a lot of "yes" or "no" answered questions, not allowing the patient to express very much emotional information. This is one of the ways that doctors, in this type of environment, try to stay emotionally detached from patients. An example of this can also be found in the movie when all the experienced doctors only refer to patients as their certain illnesses. These doctors feel that names, emotions, hobbies, etc. are just distractions that get in the way of their professional duties.

For example when Dr. Mackee went and helped Mr. Richards get his keys out of his locked car. Dr.Mackee didn’t have to go help him, Dr. Mackee could have walked away an said “ I'm not going to help him he's suing our practice” but he didn't. After Dr. Mackee got cancer his personality changed and he started acting differently towards his patients. The theme of this movie is ethical because of the way Dr. Mackee changed his mood when he knew how it felt to be the patient, being the one that goes under the knife. Dr. Mackee made the theme of this movie more realistic. The theme of this movie I believe to be is ethical and I wouldn't change my opinion about

The play Wit by Margot Edson was an astonishing film that really shows the many ways ill patients feel towards their doctors and how doctors feel about their patients. Just like the book On death and dying by Elisabeth Kubler it explains how humans are becoming less human. For example, the film illustrates how they asked the professor how she was doing when clearly she was going through withdraws or was in that much pain that she could not answer back. The professor went through eight chemo therapy sessions to fight her ovary cancer, but instead of giving her emotional support they told her she was strong enough, and to try to fight through their new research. I’m not sure how that makes me feel it’s so horrible to think that doctors can possibly

Grey’s Anatomy creates a poor representation of how doctors really act in everyday life. The series portrays a negative stereotype of doctors in how the doctors act towards each other and towards patients that come into the hospital. According to Roslyn Weaver and Ian Wilson, “When it comes to medical television shows, past research has shown there are plenty of negative representations: unprofessional behaviour, gender stereotypes, and a focus on doctors while ignoring other health professionals.” I agree with this statement. Doctors are shown to be rude, arrogant, and disrespectful a majority of the time. Also, the nurses in the series get treated bad by the doctors, like they do not mean anything to the healthcare team. The doctors also form many relationships with their employees that seem to be professionally inappropriate. Elliot B. Tapper states in an article, “The creator of this program, Shonda Rhymes, consistently eschews the importance of medicine in her show, saying that it is really ‘a relationship show with surgery in it’.” The