The Best Movies For Doctors And Medical Students

The list contains more than 100 films , each medical student and doctor should see

Enjoy !

1- Patch Adams

2- Wit

3- Philadelphia

4- Terms of Endearment

5- Leaving Las Vegas

6- The Doctor

7- Awakenings

8- The Fisher King

9- Something the Lord Made

10- And the Band Played On

11- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

12- The Painted Veil

13- The Race for the Double Helix

14- Article 99

15- People Will Talk

16- Malice

17- Sicko

18- John Q

19- The Men

20- My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

21- Red Beard

22- My Own Country

23- The Hospital

24- Britannia Hospital

25- Bringing Out the Dead

26- The gifted hands of Ben Carson

27- Pathology

28- Syndromes and a Century

29- Doctor Dolittle

30- Doctor Zhivago

31- Dr. No

32- Persona

33- House Calls

34- The Barbarian Invasions

35- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

36- High Anxiety

37- No Way Out

38- Whirlpool

39- Spellbound

40- The Abominable Dr. Phibes

41- Dr. Phibes Rises Again

42- Doctor Detroit

43- Red Angel

44- Tales from the Gimli Hospital

45- Nurse Betty

46- Night Nurse

47- Doctor in the House

48- Doctor at Sea

49- Doctor at Large

50 – Carry On Nurse

51- The Kingdom

52- Stitches

53- Medicine Man

54- The Great Moment

55- Oh Doctor

56- The Island of Dr. Moreau

57- Tombstone

58- Dead Ringers

59- MASH

60- Extraordinary Measures

61- Obsessed

62- dragonfly

63- City Of Angels

64- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

65- Malice

66- Alien

67- The Last King of Scotland

68- The Andromeda Strain

69- Coma

70- Anatomy

71- Anatomy 2

72- Flatliners

73- Dr. Giggles

74- The Dentist

75- Cold Prey 2

76- Sick Nurses

77- Dark Floor

78- Visiting Hours

79- Rabid

80- Infection

81- Blessed

82- Death Knows Your Name

83- Body Parts

84- Re-Animator

85- Extreme Measures

86- Dead Ringers

87- The Clinic

88- Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave

89- Shutter Island

90- Jacob’s Ladder

91- Outbreak

92- Repo! The Genetic Opera

93- Frankenstein

94- The Grudge

95- Boo

96- John Q

97- No Strings Attached

98- Bad Medicine

99- Doc Hollywood

100- Hysteria

101- Lorenzo’ s oil

102- My sister’s keeper

103- The Lake House

104- Living proof

105- The Impossible

106- The Elephant Man

107- The English Patient

108- Just Like Heaven

109- Django Unchained

110- Errors of the Human Body

111- The World War Z

112- Las Confesiones Del Doctor Sachs

113- American Mary

114- Side Effects

115- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

116- Restoration

117- Gabrielle

118- The Good Doctor

119- Contagion

120 – The Physician

121 – St. Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor to the Poor

122- Elysium

123- Gattaca

124- Blade Runner

125- Brazil

126- Cloud Atlas

127- A.I. Artificial Intelligence

128- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

129- Beautiful Mind

130- Forbidden Planet

131- Inception

132- Prometheus

133- Robot & Frank

134- The Fifth Element

135- City Of Joy

136- Blindness

137- The Sixth Sense

138- Master & Commander (Paul Bettany amputation scene!)

139- Nine Months

140- Arachnophobia

141- Outbreak

142- Molly (a personal fave)

143- Nell

144- Cider House Rules

145- The Fugitive

146- Young Frankenstein.

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9 TIPS TO HELP YOU FOCUS WHEN STUDYING

1. Get Rid of Distractions 

This should be pretty obvious right? But actually, it’s not. We often get distracted without realizing that we already are. Once distracted, we engage in the new task and we don’t pay attention to what we were originally supposed to do. 

Instead, to get rid of distractions, identify what distract you and then take proactive measures to not let them distract you again. For example, if it’s the internet, television or people, then you might want to consider studying at the library. 

However, sometimes distractions can be thoughts that are intrusive. For instance, thoughts stemming from anxieties or worries. If this is the case, there is only so much you can do about them. You can try seeking professional help, dealing with the cause of anxiety or worries, or doing your best to distract yourself from those thoughts. 

2. Avoid Procrastinating 

Sometimes, we don’t begin on the task because we are already distracted. If this happens, put the distractions away and tell yourself that you will start the task for 5 minutes straight. Generally, you should find that the 5 minutes is enough to motivate you to continue, but if it doesn’t, then you may want to consider re-evaluating what’s important to you or what’s really keeping you from starting. 

3. Rewarding Yourself 

This helps sometimes if you can be diligent at it. For example, you might say I will do 30 minutes of homework today then I will reward myself by playing 30 minutes of video game or television. Then over time, you build up a habit of doing the task that you actually no longer need the reward. 

4. Find A Good Time To Study 

It helps if you pay attention to when you study the best or when you’re most productive. For some people, this might be when you first wake up and you don’t have anything distracting you yet. Throughout the day, we’re more likely to become distracted so it’s better to study when our mind is still fresh. Furthermore, studying when you first wake up is really productive too, because you are less tired and generally already more focused. 

5. Finding A Good Place to Study

I wish we all had a perfect studying place that’s designed for optimal studying, but usually almost all locations have problems. For example, even the library can be inconvenient when we have to look or wait for space. However, if you’re able to decorate a room that’s perfect for studying, then do that. You will find yourself motivated by studying in the room. 

6. Set Up A Timer 

We are generally really poor at estimating how much time we need to get something done. We overestimate the amount of time we have and we end up procrastinating. If instead, we just set up a timer to like work for an hour, we are more likely to want to hold true to our words and see what we can accomplish. A part of achieving our goals is to set up a deadline for when certain tasks are needed to be done. 

7. Break Larger Task Into Smaller Ones 

Sometimes, we feel like we have so much to do that we procrastinate, because we dread. Instead, we can avoid this by doing what we’re able to do first and slowly build our way up. Furthermore, it helps if you seek help for the tasks you can not accomplish so you don’t get stuck on one place and becoming frustrated. 

8. Achieve Flow 

When you are in a state of flow, you are so focused on the task that you lose awareness of surroundings. In this case, when you studying, flow is when you can not be distracted by anything anymore. When this happens to you, take note of it, and keep doing what you are doing.  

9. Listen to Music or do Something That Helps You Get Focused

Some people find it easier to focus when they listen to music. Find the music that helps you get in the mood and use it to help you focus. Once you are focused, turn off the music if it begins to get distracting. Also, try to figure out what helps you focus. For example, nap to recover your mental energy or take a walk outside to help clear your mind. 

How Much Do Doctors in Other Countries Make?

In response to Uwe Reinhardt’s recent post on “rationing” doctors’ salaries, a number of readers wrote in asking about physician compensation in other countries.

Doing a direct comparison of remuneration across different countries is tricky because the same salary may allow for different standards of living in different places.

But here are two possible ways to think about these comparisons, taken from a 2007 Congressional Research Service report entitled “U.S. Health Care Spending: Comparison with Other OECD Countries.”

One way to compare cross-country data is to adjust the salaries for purchasing-power parity — that is, adjusting the numbers so that $1,000 of salary buys the same amount of goods and services in every country, providing a general sense of a physician’s standard of living in each nation.

These numbers are in the second, fourth and sixth columns of the chart below.

They show that American general practitioners and nurses earn more than their counterparts in other developed countries, and American specialists are close to the top of the pack.

Congressional Research Service (CRS) analysis of Remuneration of Health Professions, OECD Health Data 2006 (October 2006), available at [http://www.ecosante.fr/OCDEENG/70.html]. Sorted by specialists’ compensation. Amounts are adjusted using U.S. dollar purchasing power

parities. Amounts from previous years are trended up to 2004 dollars using the annualized Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Cost Index for wages and salaries of health services workers in private industry. 

Another way is look at how a doctor’s salary compares to the average national income in that doctor’s country — that is, gross domestic product per capita. These numbers are in the third column, fifth and seventh columns of the chart.

As a country’s wealth rises, so should doctors’ pay. But even accounting for this trend, the United States pays doctors more than its wealth would predict:

According to this model, the 2007 report says, “The U.S. position above the trendline indicates that specialists are paid approximately $50,000 more than would be predicted by the high U.S. GDP. General practitioners are paid roughly $30,000 more than the U.S. GDP would predict, and nurses are paid $8,000 more.”

But it’s important to keep in mind, the report notes, that health care professionals in other O.E.C.D. countries pay much less (if anything) for their medical educations than do their American counterparts. In other words, doctors and nurses in the rest of the industrialized world start their medical careers with much less student loan debt compared to medical graduates in the United States.

Lowest Paid Doctors In The World

According to the 2015 Medscape Physician Compensation Report, many U.S. physicians believe they are not fairly compensated for their work.  Less than half of the American ophthalmologists and general surgeons surveyed believe they are fairly compensated for their work and sacrifice.

One of the most common questions from medical professionals concerned about their compensation is, “What do medical jobs pay in other parts of the world?”  It is a simple question on the surface, but calculating real incomes can be complex.

There are many factors that must be included when calculating physicians’ real incomes all around the world including:

• Varying cost of living between countries
• Differences in tax rates between countries
• Differences in overhead for various medical field jobs
• Different medical field jobs have different pay rates in each country
• Different demand for medical jobs in each country
• Different forms of remuneration for different specialties and medical practices

OECD Countries

It’s worth examining the pay rates of physicians within the OECD countries separately because these countries all have advanced medical systems.   OECD stands for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.  It is an international economic organization that has 34 member countries, including the United States.

It should come as no surprise that the highest paid physicians in the world are from the Netherlands and the United States.  The relatively high cost of medical services in the United States drives physician salaries.  Be forewarned: if you are from the United States or the Netherlands, the lowest rates of pay that doctors receive may come as a shock to you!

Physicians with the Lowest Incomes — Relative Remuneration

One useful comparison when evaluating physicians’ incomes is looking at how much they are paid relative to other people in the economy.  In the OECD, general practitioners are paid the least in the following countries:

• Hungary (1.4 times the average wage)
• Estonia (1.7 times the average wage)
• Australia (1.7 times the average wage)
• Netherlands (1.7 times the average wage)
• Finland (1.8 times the average wage)
• Slovakia (1.9 times the average wage)

Source: http://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/48832370.pdf P9. 2011 Figures.

Specialists in the OECD are paid the least in the following countries:

• Hungary (1.6 times the average wage)
• Norway (1.8 times the average wage)
• Slovakia (1.8 times the average wage)
• Estonia (2.1 times the average wage)
• Finland/United Kingdom (2.6 times the average wage)

Source: http://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/48832370.pdf P9. 2011 Figures.

The OECD report points out that even this form of comparison may not be entirely accurate because of different forms of bonuses, practice expenses, and other informal payments.

Physicians in Hungary can earn 10 times less than doctors in other OECD countries.  It is common for well trained physicians to receive only 270,000 HUF or $1,000 per month in Hungary(Lestyánszky, 2015).

Other medical jobs in Hungary also have a relatively low salary including nurses and health administrators.  Health workers can earn as little as 141,000 HUF or $520 per month (Lestyánszky, 2015).

In terms of all European countries (including those not in the OECD), the only countries that may have a lower wage for doctors are Romania and Bulgaria (MEDLINES – Medical Headlines, 2013).

Lowest Paid Doctors in the World

In many countries, physicians earn less than people in occupations that require less training and qualifications.  In those countries, physicians are often regarded as public servants who do not need require high levels of compensation.

It should be no surprise that developing nations pay their physicians the least.  In many areas of China, for example, doctors are paid about 2,524 Yuan–$406 a month (China.org.cn, 2015).  To give that some perspective, a hotel receptionist in China can earn 2,507 Yuan, or about $403 USD per month.

Another country with extremely low salaries for doctors is Egypt.  When physicians went on strike in 2011, they were earning $46 a month when working in a public hospital (Yahoo News, 2015).  Doctors in Egypt have made some ground since then, but are still paid very poorly compared to physicians in the rest of the world.

Cuba pays physicians even less.  The country also has one of the highest numbers of physicians (per capita) in the world (Data.worldbank.org, 2015).  Cuba has been training thousands of doctors every year for many decades and leads the world with the lowest patient to doctor ratio, 155:1, while the U.S. trails way behind at 396:1 (Souers, 2012).  With a surplus of Cuban doctors, Cuba may feel less incentive or ability to pay physicians too much.  Just a few years ago, Cuban doctors received an estimated wage of between $30 and $50 per month (Newman, 2012)—arguably the lowest paid doctors in the world.  However, the climate in Cuba is changing for doctors.   A year ago, the most qualified Cuban physicians (with two specialties) were able to earn up to $67 per month (Associated Press, 2014).

It is always eye-opening and humbling to look at these figures.  What could you ever afford with an income of $67 per month in the United States?

Pablo Horteg–Staff Writer for DoctorCPR.com–America’s #1 Site for Medical Jobs + Practice Resources

Sources

Associated Press (2014). Cuba hikes salaries for doctors, nurses to as much as $67 a month. Retrieved 12 July 2015, from http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/21/cuba-hikes-salaries-for-doctors-nurses-to-as-much-as-67-month/

Bennetts, R. (2011). Remuneration of doctors and nurses: Progress and next steps (1st ed.). OECD. Retrieved 5 July 2015, from oecd.org/health/health-systems/48832370.pdf

China.org.cn,. (2015). Top 10 lowest paying jobs for Chinese graduates 2013 – China.org.cn. China.org.cn. Retrieved 5 July 2015, from china.org.cn/top10/2013-06/21/content_29190537.htm

Data.worldbank.org,. (2015). Physicians (per 1,000 people) | Data | Table. Retrieved 10 July 2015, from data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?order=wbapi_data_value_2010+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-first&sort=desc

Lestyánszky, Á. (2015). Hungarian health care workers earn 1/10th that of their western counterparts – The Budapest Beacon. The Budapest Beacon. Retrieved 5 July 2015, from budapestbeacon.com/public-policy/hungarian-health-care-workers-earn-110th-that-of-their-western-counterparts/20371

MEDLINES – Medical Headlines,. (2013). Medical salaries in Europe. Retrieved 5 July 2015, from medlines.org/they-pay-less-for-a-hungarian-doctors-than-other-workers-medical-salaries-europe/

Newman, L. (2012). The truths and tales of Cuban healthcare. Aljazeera.com. Retrieved 5 July 2015, from aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/06/201265115527622647.html

Souers, J.M. (2012).  Cuba leads the world in lowest patient per doctor ratio; How do they do it? Retrieved 12 July 2015, from http://www.socialmedicine.org/2012/07/30/about/cuba-leads-the-world-in-lowest-patient-per-doctor-ratio-how-do-they-do-it/

Yahoo News,. (2015). Egypt doctors strike for better wages, services. Retrieved 5 July 2015, from news.yahoo.com/egypt-doctors-strike-better-wages-services-172738842.html

Why Doctors Marry Doctors: Exploring Medical Marriages

Nearly 40 percent of physicians are likely to marry another physician or health care professional, according to the 2014 Work/Life Profiles of Today’s Physician released last year by AMA Insurance. Many physicians marry other health care workers because of life timing and availability, said Steve Sherick, MD, an emergency medicine doctor who lives with his wife, a pediatric oncologist, in Colorado.

“The times in your life when you’re seeking a partner happen to coincide very nicely with the time you’re in medical school and training,” he said. “It’s a huge chunk of life, and your social circles revolve around that.” Working long hours with friends at the hospital, especially during residency, may also stoke the flames for a new romance. As a resident, Krista Bott, MD, a surgeon at Moses Taylor Hospital, said she worked nearly 80 hours a week at the hospital and when she wasn’t there, she’d study for hours at home. “All of my friends in the area were from work,” she said. “So it came as no surprise to me that most of the people who worked there, dated there.” During her residency, Bott followed suit and began dating a nurse, who is now her husband. 

Benefits of medical marriages 

Some physicians report that they enjoy having a companion who shares their perspective and passion for medicine. “As doctors, your lives are so incredibly busy that it’s hard to meet people outside medicine and when you do, it’s hard to explain why you really need to work on Christmas or go in at 2 a.m. for a delivery, “said Kavita Shah Arora, MD, an assistant professor of reproductive biology and bioethics at Case Western Reserve University and a gynecologist at Metro Health Medical Center.

 Dr. Arora married a urology resident. “When you’re with someone in medicine, you have that shared language and experience. You share the same set of values when it comes to helping others and putting your responsibility as a physician above your relationship’s needs.” Dr. Sherick said there’s also a psychological and emotional benefit to marrying someone who understands the challenges unique to doctors, such as losing patients or critical life events. “Most people see someone dying once or twice in life, but for us, it’s not an uncommon thing,” he said. “It can be tough on you if you’re with someone who doesn’t understand.” Plus, there’s an added bonus to having a medical partner at home. “We can speak the same medical jargon,” Dr. Bott said, which eases communication in her relationship because explaining situations in lay-terms can become frustrating. 

Challenges for physicians to consider 

While many physicians have found love and compromise among their colleagues, entering a relationship with someone in the healthcare profession has its challenges. For one, if you and your partner have children, finding reliable childcare that accommodates the schedules of two busy physicians can be difficult. It’s also hard to strike work-life balance as a couple, Dr. Arora said, adding that having “your heart and soul wrapped up in your patients” can really strain a relationship. And while many doctors have found comfort in their shared traits, being too similar has its disadvantages too. 

“As a doctor, you’re taught that you’re the decision-maker. You’re the decider but then you go home and you’re with another decision-maker,” Dr. Sherick said. Still, despite the potential pitfalls of medical marriages, Dr. Bott said she’s happy to build a life with someone who shares her plans for the future. “We can really go anywhere we want and there will always be a hospital to work in,” she said. “We are comfortable in life, we can do the things we want, and our children will be well-cared for.”

Top 10 Reasons to Date a Doctor

Dating a doctor definitely has some major benefits. Let’s look at a few of the reasons to date a doctor!

1. They’re smart- They went through A LOT of schooling to get where they’re at. They had to take science and maths that would make the average head spin! 

2. Free doctor visits- If you’re feeling sick and need some expert advice on your tummy trouble or sprained ankle, you can always ask the doctor you’re dating! 

3. Financial stability- One of the fabulous perks of dating a doctor is their bank account. 

4. They listen well- Doctors are trained to listen very attentively to what you have to say and to process what you are telling them. Dating a female doctor will boost this benefit even more because of a female’s natural caring and attentive nature. 

5. They’re fixers- Doctors are trained to fix you. Their job is to problem solve and get everything working back to normal. 

6. Can’t gross them out- Doctors have seen the worst of the worst. Your funky skin rash isn’t going to send them running for the hills. With the gross things they deal with every day, it is very hard to surprise them. 

7. They’re committed- All of the schooling, studying, training and practicing took a lot of effort and dedication to complete. Dating a physician has many pros and this is a big one. 

8. Interesting conversation- One of the things you can look forward to if you’re trying to figure out how to meet a doctor to date is the stimulating conversation.There’s no such thing as “just another day at the office” in the medical field. 

9. They’re Dependable- Doctors are often on-call and have to be available at any hour of the day. You can rest assured that your doctor will be there for you anytime you need them! 

10. Status- Love should have nothing to do with titles or salaries, but doctors do come with a prestigious status. Doctors are highly respected in society and dating one puts you right alongside them.