she didnt have to die
they could of left out that scene
shareExcept the idea was to tell his story and she really was murdered.
share*She* was absolutely a fabrication. The real Patch had a close male friend murdered by a patient, and met his future wife while at Med school - whom he lived with for several decades after.
shareAnd if they had done that to portray it most closely, would his death have been any less tragic? Movies do have a way of putting women where men sometimes go. In the Tarzan books, he saves men from the dangers of the jungle, in the movies, they put young beautiful women on the spot for needing his rescue.
shareApparently the writers thought so. I'm sure they agreed that the death of Adams' close male friend would have been sad, it wouldn't have been as sad as the death of the love interest and the only character in the film that understood Adams and what he was trying to do. Hence why it was changed. Not to mention her death was also fuel for the False Crisis when Adams is trying to decide whether or not he should give up medicine. Something that AGAIN, never happened in real life.
Oh members of IMDb, yours is a dim-witted and insane lot!
Hey, you're not thinking about people who need some gratuitous hot snatch forced into their 'true life' medical dramas.
Actually she never even existed. She was a complete WORK OF FICTION!
"I really wish Gia and Claire had became Tanner" - Honeybeefine
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