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The Doctor is a 1991 American drama film directed by Randa Haines.It is loosely based on Dr. Edward Rosenbaum's 1988 memoir A Taste Of My Own Medicine. [1] The film stars William Hurt as Jack McKee, a doctor who undergoes a transformation in his views about life, illness and human relationships.
Edward E Rosenbaum (May 14, 1915 – May 31, 2009), was an American physician and author. [1] [2] He is best known for the autobiographical chronicle of his experience with throat cancer, The Doctor, [3] (initially published as A Taste of My Own Medicine [4]), which was the basis of the movie The Doctor, starring William Hurt as a physician modeled on Dr. Rosenbaum.
29th Street (1991) – comedy drama film based on the true-life story of actor Frank Pesce, who won the first New York State Lottery in 1976 [84]; A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story (1991) – biographical drama television film recounting the life of Ricky Bell, a Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back sickened with dermatomyositis, and Ryan Blankenship, a physically impaired child [85]
The films inspired in turn to seven different Doctor television series between 1969 and 1991, totalling 157 thirty-minute episodes: . Doctor in the House, which first ran on ITV from July 1969 to July 1970, with a total of 26 thirty-minute episodes.
The Gallifrey Chronicles is a book related to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Written by John Peel, The Gallifrey Chronicles is an exploration of the fictional history of the planet Gallifrey as revealed in the television series. It was published by Virgin Publishing in 1991.
Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. (October 9, 1943 – October 30, 2013), was an American physician and author. His novels are often referred to as medical thrillers. [1] Some of his novels have made The New York Times Best Seller list and have been translated into 35 languages.
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Richard Gordon (born Gordon Stanley Benton, 15 September 1921 – 11 August 2017, also known as Gordon Stanley Ostlere), [1] was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist.As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine.