Medical patients SUFFERED as a result of this film

There's good and bad in every profession. I don't doubt the OP's original post, but not all doctors turn out that way. I was in a serious car accident and have had a team of doctors for 12 years helping me recover and they are all the greatest and their staff always said they were great people. Some of the doctors have cared so much to give me their personal home numbers or to call the office if I'm having a problem and they'll work me into an appointment and stay late. I got very lucky because I didn't have a family physician so I got assigned the doctor on call at the hospital that day, and he's been the greatest and a good friend ever since.
But, I also witnessed doctors with the "God Complex". My parents were significantly injured in an explosion while on vacation and they ended up at a University Hospital where most of the doctors were under 30. A couple were absolutely arrogant and couldn't tolerate us asking questions. I nearly physically struck one if my brother wouldn't have stopped me. We also dealt with some surgeon who kept changing his prognosis the more we questioned him. We were forced to decide if he would try to repair my mother's severly crushed foot or whether we should amputate. With my mother suffering from many other injuries, she was in an induced coma so the family had to decide. The doctor wanted to go ahead and do the reconstruction surgery. I saw the photos of her foot in her chart and couldn't believe that it could be put back together. As we continued to meet with him, the number of surgeries it would take to "fix" her foot kept changing. First he told us 1 operation. Than 2-3. Finally he said it would take several, and then he admitted even after several surgeries it might not work and they'd have to amputate anyway. I asked him point blank if he ever repaired an injury as severe as my mother's and he said, "no but that's how we learn". Well I told him he wasn't going to practice on her since he was just an orthapedic surgeon and didn't really seem to know about her other injuries. I asked about the skin and he said they'd take it from her abdomin. Her abdomin had about 100 staples and stiches holding her together from having to have her spleen removed. I couldn't believe what this guy was saying. When we told him the whole family agreed amputation was best, he told us we were making a bad decision. The day of the procedure, he even unsedated my mother and tried to get her to agree to more surgery but luckily my wife and I were there and convinced her to let go. The doctor walked away angry. Next came in a plastic surgeon who introduced himself and said he was going to do the skin grafts and had just finished reviewing her chart. When I told him we had just told the other doctor to amputate, this doctor had the greatest look of relief come over him and privately admitted we were doing the right thing. None of the other doctors would talk about another if you asked them if the other doctor was any good. Luckily we got my parents stabilized and shipped back home where they're own doctors could see to their long-term care and recovery. The orthopedic doctor never even came to see us after the surgery or for the next few days before we got her out of there and back home. I'm grateful my parents were lucky to have a trauma center to go to or else my mother would have probably not made it, but I did witness how some doctors just believe themselves to be above everything. The nurses and the hospital staff were the best and really helped us out. 11 years later, my Mom's very active, walks without a limp on a prostetic and has traveled the world. We never regret the decision we made.

....and I'll bet that frat boys never did anything naughty until "Animal House" came out in 1978, either.