Help Me Crack the Internet and Find Medical Movies With Surgical Precisi

December 13, 2019 2:12 AM

Looking for very accurate medical documentaries or films. Help me uncover the gems of medical lore, legend and depiction of the beginning, underpinning, conspiracy or legacy - wherever they may be.
posted by watercarrier to Health & Fitness (5 answers total)

Best answer: I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but How to Survive a Plague is a wonderful documentary about activists in the early days of the AIDS crisis. So there’s a lot of medical-related content, and you did say conspiracy.
posted by FencingGal at 2:59 AM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]

I am also not exactly sure what you mean -- do you have any examples of movies that would satisfy your criteria?
posted by mean square error at 6:05 AM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Hopkins 24/7 was a great documentary filmed at Johns Hopkins Hospital (2000). But I am not sure also if this is what you mean, but it is well worth watching. Something the Lord Made is an HBO movie also filmed there about the pioneering of heart surgery and the role of an African American man who played a huge role in it.
posted by maxg94 at 8:15 AM on December 13, 2019 [2 favorites]

Best answer: I don't know if this is helpful to you, but Wired magazine has a series of YouTube videos where a surgeon critiques depictions of emergency medicine and surgeries in movies and TV shows, making sure to spotlight when something is accurate or mostly accurate. Videos can be found here, here and here.
posted by zeusianfog at 10:31 AM on December 13, 2019 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thank you everyone. Sorry if the query was obscure. I think there's enough here to to keep me occupied for a while. Most obliged.
posted by watercarrier at 7:57 AM on December 14, 2019