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The Doctor

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The movie, the Doctor revolves around Dr Jack McKee, a character played by William Hurt who is a successful head surgeon at a renowned hospital. The doctor is a self-centered, egocentric person who is very busy in his professional life and hardly spends time with his sons and wife. He is not very emotionally attached to his wife nor does he cares about his patients and always humiliates and treats them unprofessionally. He is a self-sufficient and insensitive person who does not have emotional attachment with his patients. He jokes even when he is doing a surgery and always tries to embarrass his patients. He never realizes his arrogance until one day he coughed blood and has been diagnosed with throat cancer. He then realizes the humiliation …show more content…

As Dr JacK has a high need of power and achievement but after his cancer diagnosis, his needs changes to intimacy and affiliation. Our current healthcare system is an example where the patients do not have the freedom to choose their own healthcare to get the best treatment they can afford. In this country we want a good affordable health care for every one and not just for few people. It is the right of every American to be treated equally and get their basic rights. People who do not want to get insured are being forced to get it otherwise they have to pay the penalty. Getting insurance from job companies is also now much more expensive then it was before. People have to change their medical practitioners just because the new insurance policies are not letting them to be with their previous doctors. Accoroding to the study by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) claims that the current healthcare system can cause a great reduction in jobs and found that the employer mandate alone can cause the loss of 1.6 million jobs and most of them are from small businesses and insurance premiums have also increased in 2013 as compared to 2012. (Eckerly Susan, 2009).The republicans recently published a document, “Obamacare: A budget-busting, job killing health care law,” which also cites various sources and claims that affordable care act is a job killer.(Boehner, Cantor, Camp, Kline, Ryan, & Upton, 2011). NFIB manager, Kevin Kuhlman said, “Rising costs and increased requirements and taxes in the healthcare law are leading to increased costs. With major insurance provisions beginning January 1, 2014, small business owners can expect further increased costs.” (Eckerly Susan, 2009).Thus our current healthcare system is not a citizen supportive system. It needs to be planned in a way that everyone can get

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