My list of movies on Medicine

When a self-centered doctor is diagnosed with cancer, he becomes better able to empathize with his patients and appreciate a life outside his career.

Dr. Sayer is a pioneering neurologist who wants to take a risk and give his patients who suffer from encephalitis a drug used for Parkinson's Disease. He tries it out on one man who miraculously wakes from his perpetual catatonic state.

Dr. Richard Sturgess and his colleagues cut red tape at a poorly-run hospital for veterans.

Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.

A young and ambitious female doctor's best friend falls into an unexplained coma after a routine medical procedure. Noticing an unusually high number of similar comas occurring in her hospital, she's determined to uncover the cause.

A team of Army doctors struggle to find a cure for the deadly Motaba virus that was transported from Africa to North America by a white-headed Capuchin monkey and is now spreading quickly throughout a small California town.

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.

This film tells some of the stories of John Sherman, a surgeon general with an overwhelming number of patients in need of care in a time where hospitals are more of an industry than a service.

This documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh) situated in Ukraine as we are exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession.

The fact-based story of the pioneer of nursing, known as "the Lady with the Lamp".

Dr Kilmore is sacked after being discovered in a compromising position on the roof of the nurses' home. The patients are determined not to lose him, and so take on the might of the "cutting" Dr Tinkle and the overpowering Matron.

A hospital's chief-of-staff struggles to find meaning in his life during a spate of staff deaths.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.

The true story of the heroic Hunter "Patch" Adams who's determined to become a medical doctor because of his desire to help other people. He ventures where no doctor ever ventured before utilizing humor and pathos.

Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.

A newly admitted mental patient helps his docile companions defy the tyrannical head nurse.

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories including shotgun deaths.

A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.

A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.

In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity.

A mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.

Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.