Refine their understanding of when to initiate discussion of CPR versus DNR/DNAR. Showing all 4 items Jump to: Summaries (4) Summaries. Each film recommended by TeachWithMovies.org contains lessons on life and positive moral messages. A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. .zip file. Treatment seemed like the link in the chain of events for doctors and nothing else, but Vivian like any person wanted human attitude and good words from the heart, but not in the frames of university course of care about patients. First of all it is necessary to say that Wit is an American television movie directed by Mike Nichols in 2001. Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license. What to do? Learn what informed consent ought to include when enrolling a patient in a research protocol. The opening sentence of Edward George Bulwer-Lytton’s novel Paul Clifford, published in 1830, begins with the phrase: “It was a dark and stormy night….” Humanity is a problematic question in this situation, because doctors were trying to help their patients, and Vivian was among them, but she was not like a person with her own world, but only an experimental sample for tests, a piece of white paper for taking notes and studying her �interesting�� disease. s�y%;3��| {]XӲR�q���E�I6�!fM�ai�&9���껷���΁��~��&xX���գB U}O�LE'� �� A��@�Ci��HM�m�m�~y���,[� uu9���#73K*����,�G�+��+Q�T���VPlekj)��BrT,`C�[,���԰x>��s$��ݎf&�a�x���J�� Vg�� $� �!��-��i�^g� Here we also see the above stated dilemma between humanity and scientific character. Copyright © 2020 AAMC 655 K Street, NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC 20001-2399, https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.3166. 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As Vivian explains in various monologues, irony is also a major theme in Donne’s work, which is concerned with life’s “big questions” like death and God, but usually ends up losing itself in its own wit and intellectual quandaries. Identify what patients are most likely to benefit from CPR. 5 0 obj She feels herself the subject of inquiry, because nobody needs her personality, her previous merits, her degree, her mind and thoughts. Vivian Bearing was the well-known professor of English literature and the sphere of her interest was connected with the Holly Sonnets of John Donne, as a part of metaphysic poetry. Reflection Paper on Wit Launa Theodore A universal constant about being a patient is vulnerability and loss of control. %PDF-1.4 ޔ����=Cx ��"�2��FVA�����]�W��l����K��-��jc��8A The first thing is family and communication, because Vivian was thinking about communication a lot and choose between career, I mean science, and simple human communication. By the end of this resource, learners will be able to: Identify how CPR differs from all other medical interventions. The movie Wit is a heartfelt drama that I would consider a must see for those aspiring to enter any field of medicine. In connection with the Great Movies project, I settled down to watch a relatively recent film I thought was a likely prospect, Mike Nichols' "Wit" (2001). She liked her subject and science, but she had strict rules and forgot about people, their feelings and ordinary problems. Dr. Harvey Kelekian, and Jason Posner, is morally viewed characters because of their discussions with the patient. ,������`�8��&������vL_�SA���v��b�e���_�G\�&�N��iY�S>�e.�fojhe���x9�3M� The next thing is suffering, because Vivian tells her own story about her sufferings in a narrative monologue style. Vivian Bearing received full dose aggressive treatment and suffer from it, one time when she was suffering it was possible to make the treatment less aggressive, but doctor decided to continue an experiment and was looking for own scientific result in it. She explained that she learned to suffer for these long 8 months of treatment and time dimension killing her as much as her disease. It is obvious that life and death found their real forms and discontinued to be only abstract notions, without borders and real content. stream Furthermore, the death of Vivian Bearing in the play Wit by Margaret Edson plays a role by teaching Vivian how to use compassion.