In previous writing published elsewhere, I have considered how medicine is portrayed in Japanese manga. In many of those works medicine as an institution is presented as the problem and the heroes of the works are often brilliant renegades who force spotlights onto corruption and professional inertia. In this piece, I wished to contrast that […]
“I am a Doctor” Part 3: Defining the Future and Considering our Present
While exerting control over the representation of certain groups within medicine as we previously considered is powerful the true value of audiovisual technology to the AMA is revealed only when considering their deftness at taking the pulse of mid-century America. The ability to present cardiothoracic surgery on the screen to a society living little over […]
“I am a Doctor” Part 2: When I would not look like a Doctor
The medium of video means that the literal faces of the next generation of American medicine can also be presented and subtlety shaped by the AMA and AAMC through “I am a Doctor”. The doctor’s face as embodied by the actor playing Dr. Judd is a tired and careworn one but also strong and trustworthy. […]
