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Wit Movie Analysis

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The movie “Wit” was very touching story about 48 year old English professor, Vivian, who is diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer. Her physician gets her to agree to an aggressive chemotherapy treatment which is a research experiment. He tells her that the therapy is the best way to cure here cancer. Vivian went through eight months of rigorous and often painful experimental treatment especially the final weeks of her life. One of her former student, Jason, is a researcher on the team. Jason is very intelligent person but insensitivity to Vivian. He always come in the room and question such as “how are you feeling today?”, which after while loses all meaning. On the other hand she has her primary care nurse, Susie, shows compassion and sense of code of ethics which brings her into conflicts at time with the physician. Vivian actually suffered throughout the treatment. Symptoms became worst at the end of life. By Vivian taking the chemotherapy at full dosage she experiences many side effects. I asked myself what if she would have never taken the treatment and just went home to let natural take its course. People ask that same question every day. As a hospice nurse I see an increase in patients attempting treatment to death, spending more time in hospitals in their final days, trying last-ditch treatment that often buy only a few weeks of time. So why do people do it? At times healthcare professional fail to tell the truth because it can much easier to continue to

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