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Analytical Essay

Patch Adams

The movie Patch Adams is a story about a medical student who broke the conservatism of American medical schools which sought its students to be prim and proper in every aspect of their student life

Patch , the main character , did not let himself be burdened by the rigidity of training for the medical profession and even insisted on a different approach to learning and even treating patients . He did not believe in the cold neutrality of the medical profession and insisted on the necessity of incorporating warm relations with patients

. All of this Patch Adams consistently did even if he earned the ire of the senior faculty members in his medical school and was almost precluded from ever becoming a doctor . Instead of simply getting the medical history of a patient , he would ask about the lives of his patients . Instead of simply diagnosing them , he would eve throw parties for the children . To a certain extent , he might definitely considered a deviant insofar as his medical school was concerned , yet the impacts of his deviance had a positive note which even contributed to the development of a new field of medicine -family medicine . Had Patch Adams opted to simply be a normal medical student as rigid as all the others , concepts on the necessity of warm relations between patient and doctor might have never gone to the fore

Another person was as revolutionary and deviant as Patch Adams , his girlfriend Corrine . Corrine held on so tightly to the revolutionary concepts that Patch championed that it cost her life in pursuit of such lofty ideals for the betterment of health of their patients . While she may not have been as dynamic and playful as Patch , the movie was very clear in articulating the collective aspirations of the couple in creating a new path in the medical profession . Like Patch , she never reneged on her ideals even it sometimes became burdensome to her medical education and even to her relationship with Patch . Corrine may be said to be deviant in all of these circumstances as well

Another interesting character of note would be the Patch and his girlfriend Corrine 's patient , Larry , who had murdered Corrine while she went to his house for a medical visit . Larry 's case , on the other hand was a classic case of social deviance due to his psychiatric condition If left unchecked , his deviance would definitely have unwanted consequences even if attempts are replete in assimilating Larry into society . No other better explanation for this can be had than the murder of Corrine

Insofar as the movie 's relation into Saudi Arabian culture , the message of the movie is clear that not all forms of deviance may be constituted as detrimental to the general and health of a society and community . As such , unreasonable social rigidities imposed in Saudi Arabia based on tradition may be challenged by social deviances such as the assertion of greater democratic rights for the people . These assertions...

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