Family doctor (restored version).

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1946
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Family doctor (restored version). Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Dramatisation of the work of a general practitioner and his relationship with one family of patients. Includes a sequence where the doctor offers a female patient a cigarette in his surgery whilst they discuss divorce. The film illustrates some of the pressures a family doctor would be under at the time, and highlights that every patient is an individual. The elder GP speaks with some irony about the pressures on his time but his empathy and willingness to help patients reaps dividends in his relationship with the family. This was made two years before the National Health Service was created, and perhaps reflects some of the attitudes toward approaching change in the role of the family doctor. 1 segment.

Publication/Creation

England, 1946.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (18.38 min.) : sound, black and white

Duration

00:18:38

Copyright note

British Medical Association

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Unrestricted
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales

Language note

In English

Creator/production credits

Produced by Everyman Films.

Notes

This film was directed by Richard Massingham (1898 - 1953), who made many public information films for the British Government. He had a career in medicine before he became a filmmaker.
This video was made from material preserved at the BFI National Archive.
The audio of this new transfer is significantly improved.

Contents

Segment 1 Dramatisation of the work of a general practitioner and his relationship with one family of patients. Includes a sequence where the doctor offers a female patient a cigarette in his surgery whilst they discuss divorce. The film illustrates some of the pressures a family doctor would be under at the time, and highlights that every patient is an individual. The elder GP speaks with some irony about the pressures on his time but his empathy and willingness to help patients reaps dividends in his relationship with the family. This was made two years before the National Health Service was created, and perhaps reflects some of the attitudes toward approaching change in the role of the family doctor Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:18:38:00 Length: 00:18:38:0

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