Still Alice Case Analysis

The movie Still Alice focuses on Dr. Alice Howland a prominent linguistic professor and public speaker, who recognizes that her issues of forgetfulness, loss of words and feeling lost on certain occasions could be signs of a medical condition. Dr. Alice Howland pursues a neurologist Dr. Benjamin who through a series of memory tests, laboratory testing and a positron emission tomography scan confirms her diagnosis of familial Alzheimer’s disease (Brown, Koffler, Lutzua, Glatzer, & Westmoreland, 2014). The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse the theoretical and empirical perspective of the doctor-patient experience specifically concentrating on a scene from the movie Still Alice (see Appendix A). Utilizing three of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) to support the viewer’s discernment lack of support. The perception of the patient lacking support is yielded when Alice receives her diagnosis in Dr. Benjamin's office, with her is John her husband who is a physician begins disputing the validity of the diagnosis with the neurologist. In the moments after such a critical diagnosis patients require reinforcements and advocacy to feel protected and shielded from the unknown. "When a patient …show more content…
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