Details
- Running time
- 11 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- i_am_a_doctor_2
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Useful Film · JayKay49 · 2012-08-10
Informative film which outlines clearly what type of person is suitable for medicine. It pulls no punches and even stresses the fact that this field is for rocket scientists. On the other hand, far out space cadets needn't apply. Its important to be a marriageable, apparently heterosexual if you are a man. No similar requirement is mentioned for girls who enter med school - but this was done around 1960 when bachelors were coming under suspicion as people began to wonder what they did in their spare time. I knew something was up at the beginning of the film - that nurse waa acting pretty…
★★★★ · Doctoring is not for Dopes · Spuzz · 2003-11-03
Pretty amazing, but highly depressing film about what one can look forward to when one becomes a doctor. With that being said, I have absolutely no idea who this film was made for. I am quite surprised that the medical community would make a "Your life's work" film for a person just finishing high school and because of this film decide then and there to be a doctor. I am sure they had made up their mind while in school. Also, since they're I guess, recruiting doctors, telling the story from a doctor dying of leukemia ("fiving his own life sentence") isn't going to fill up the classrooms with…