Video: Not as a Stranger
This weekend was supposed to be icy and frozen, so I just stayed in and watched movies and read books. 'Twas fantastic!
Not as a Stranger is a movie I picked up at Goodwill a while back. It stars Robert Mitchum as Lucas Marsh, a (really, really old) medical student. Frank Sinatra is another (really, really old) med student in his class.
Lucas Marsh is hard up for tuition and couldn't come up with the $400 for tuition. Facing expulsion from the school, he decides to marry a Swedish nurse who happens to have a couple of thousand bucks in her savings account. Just the first in a string of jerky things that Lucas Marsh does in his life.
It was really neat to see what medical education was like fifty years ago. (Beyond a tuition that was around one percent of what it is today...) A lot of things were really similar, but there was a LOT that was different. Like, if I am to believe the movie, school was two years followed by a one-year internship, then that was it... Anatomy was taught in a giant stadium, and men were a lot more prone to fainting. Professors, however, were just as boring.
The plot of the movie was a bit choppy, but I still liked it - mostly because of the old medical references. Neato.
Professor something: A doctor is memory. There are 17,000 pages exactly like that that you will memorize before you leave here.
posted by Brenna @ 4:00 PM
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