A physician with autism in the TV series? Lessons of The Good Doctor
Abstract The medical drama The Good Doctor / El buen doctor (TV) (2017) of David Shore (United States) is helpful to analyze various important issues to health sciences. On the one hand, as a medical drama, it allows to examine the fiction of doctors and patients, the bioethical dilemmas raised in each of the cases, and the implications of the professional actions in the lives of patients. On the other hand, the peculiar qualities of the protagonist (characterized with a diagnosis of autism and savant syndrome, which makes him both extremely intelligent and not very skilled in social relations) are the key of access for the analysis of representations about people with autism, both in the cinema and on television. In this article we will focus especially on the representation of autism and the fact that the guest is the first autistic doctor to appear in a medical drama. What are their characteristics? How is the guest of The Good Doctor characterized? Its usefulness for students of health sciences is multiplied and allows to return to bioethical questions as well as aspects linked to doctor-patient communication and the limits and possibilities of the medical practice.
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Weaver R, Wilson I, Langendyk V. Medical professionalism on television: Student perceptions and pedagogical implications. Health (London). 2014;18(6):597-612. Disponible en: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8170/e624be3fef14ceaa8f76a23eef08aa323cc0.pdf
Wong R, Saber S, Ma I, Roberts JM: Using television shows to teach communication skills in internal medicine residency. BMC Med Educ. 2009; 9:9. Disponible en: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1472-6920-9-9
Turow J. Television Entertainment and the U.S. Health Care Debate. Lancet 1996;347(9010):1240-3.
Baird G, Simonoff E, Pickles A, Chandler S, Loucas T, Meldrum D, et al. Prevalence of disorders of the autism spectrum in a population cohort of children in South Thames: the Special Needs and Autism project (SNAP). Lancet 2006; 368(9531):210-5.
Baron-Cohen S. Autism, maths, and sex: the special triangle. Lancet Psychiatry. 2015; 2(9): 790-1. Disponible en: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2215-0366%2815%2900397-1
Belcher C, Maich K. Autism spectrum disorder in popular media: Storied reflections of societal views. J Educ Res Pract 2014;23(2):97–115. Disponible en: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1057529.pdf
Brooks E. "Healthy Sexuality": Opposing forces? Autism and dating, romance, and sexuality in the mainstream media. Can J Disability Stud 2018; 7(2):161-86. Disponible en: http://129.97.58.125:8080/index.php/cjds/article/view/428
Chory-Assad R, Tamborini R. Television Doctors: An Analysis of Physicians in Fictional and Non-Fictional Television Programs. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 2001; 45(3):499-521. Disponible en: http://www.angelfire.com/pro/soc247/readings/health_1.pdf
Czarny M, Faden R, Nolan M, Bodensiek E, Sugarman J. Medical and Nursing Students' Television Viewing Habits: Potential Implications for Bioethics. Amer J Bioethics. 2008; 8(12): 1-8. Disponible en: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056774/
Draaisma, D. Stereotypes of autism. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009;364(1522):1475-80. Disponible en: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/364/1522/1475.full.pdf
Garner A. What's Showing: Film industry portrayals of autism spectrum. conditions and their influences on preservice teachers in Australia (Doctor Philosophy thesis). Wollongong: University of Wollongong; 2014. Disponible en: https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5289&context=theses
Goodman K. Medical education: Imagining doctors: Medical students and the TV medical drama. Virtual Mentor 2017; 9(3):182–7. Disponible en: https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/sites/journalofethics.ama-assn.org/files/2018-06/medu1-0703.pdf
Hoffman B, Hoffman R, Wessel C, Shensa A, Woods M, Primack B. Use of fictional medical television in health sciences education: a systematic review. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2018; 23(1):201-16.
Holton AE, Farrell LC, Fudge, JL. A threatening space? Stigmatization and the framing of autism in the news. Communication Studies. 2014; 65(2): 189-207.
Jerrentrup A, Mueller T, Glowalla U, Herder M, Henrichs N, Neubauer A et al. Teaching medicine with the help of “Dr. House”. PLoS One. 2018; 13(3): e0193972. Disponible en: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0193972
Law M, Kwong W, Friesen F, Veinot P, Ng S. The current landscape of television and movies in medical education. Perspect Med Educ. 2015;4(5):218-24. Disponible en: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40037-015-0205-9
Morgan J. Has autism found a place in mainstream TV? Lancet Neurol. 2018. pii: S1474-4422(18)30236-9. Disponible en: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1474-4422%2818%2930236-9
Nordahl-Hansen A, Øien RA, Fletcher-Watson S. Pros and Cons of Character Portrayals of Autism on TV and Film. J Autism Dev Disord. 2018; 48(2):635-6.
Otterson J. TV Ratings: ‘Good Doctor’ Season 1 Finale Holds Steady. Variety [internet]. 27 de marzo de 2018. Disponible en: https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/good-doctor-season-1-finale-ratings-1202737259/
Poniezowick J. On ‘The Good Doctor,’ the Anti-Antihero Is In. The New York Times internet]. 12 de noviembre de 2017. Disponible en: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/arts/television/the-good-doctor-freddie-highmore-abc.html
Strauman E, Goodier BC. Not your grandmother’s doctor show: A review of Grey’s Anatomy, House, and Nip/Tuck. J Med Humanities 2008; 29(2):127–31.
Vera-Poseck B. Locura y cine: claves para entender una historia de amor reñido. Rev Med Cine. 2006; 2(3): 80-8. Disponible en: http://revistas.usal.es/cinco/index.php/medicina_y_cine/article/view/175/310
Weaver R, Wilson I. Australian medical students' perceptions of professionalism and ethics in medical television programs. BMC Med Educ. 2011; 11(1):50. Disponible en: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1472-6920-11-50
Weaver R, Wilson I, Langendyk V. Medical professionalism on television: Student perceptions and pedagogical implications. Health (London). 2014;18(6):597-612. Disponible en: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8170/e624be3fef14ceaa8f76a23eef08aa323cc0.pdf
Wong R, Saber S, Ma I, Roberts JM: Using television shows to teach communication skills in internal medicine residency. BMC Med Educ. 2009; 9:9. Disponible en: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1472-6920-9-9
Turow J. Television Entertainment and the U.S. Health Care Debate. Lancet 1996;347(9010):1240-3.
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