As
shocking and gory as the medical world is portrayed on television,
it seldom comes close to reality, a lesson that Pauline W. Chen
regurgitates in FINAL EXAM as she describes her academic (and
continuing) education in the most difficult of all lessons: dealing
with death.
I'm no psychologist, but sometimes I wonder if doctors go into the
profession because of a God complex, where they wield such awesome
power; patients defer to their wisdom and pu