The Doctor is a 1991 American drama film directed by Randa Haines and starring William Hurt as a doctor who undergoes a transformation in his views about life, illness and human relationships. It is loosely based on the book A Taste Of My Own Medicine. Dr. Jack MacKee is a successful surgeon at a leading hospital. He and his wife have all the trappings of success and generally lead a comfortable life, although Jack works such long hours that he rarely has time to see their son and has become somewhat emotionally dead to his wife. His "bedside manner" with his patients, who are in many cases... seriously ill, is also quite lacking. The decorum in the operating theater is very casual, loud country and rock music, and the chatter between him and his partner, Dr. Murray Kaplan not particularly professional until a challenge arises. They do get the job done. With another patient with a large, ugly chest crack, who complains her husband is not close anymore and what should she say to him, Jack responds that she should tell him that she is just like a "Playboy center fold, because she has the staple marks to prove it".
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| Release date: | July 24, 1991 |
| Directed by: | Randa Haines |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 122 Minutes |
| Producer: | Laura Ziskin |
| Editor: | Lisa Fruchtman, Bruce Green |
| Music by: | Michael Convertino |
| Cinematography: | John Seale |
| Screenplay by: | Ed Rosenbaum, Robert Caswell |
| Estimated budget: | $38,000,000 |