"...First Do No Harm"
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Movie Reviews of "...First Do No Harm"
Movie Review: 'This kind of epilepsy requires prayer and fasting . . .'
Summary: 5 Stars
When Jesus' disciples tried to heal an epileptic boy, they failed. Jesus told them that that type of epilepsy required prayer and fasting. This is a great movie about the efforts of 'established' medicine and other forms of healing. After months of trying all the medical efforts to control this boy's epilepsy with no success, he is scheduled for brain surgery. However, his mother has studied everything she can about epilepsy, and come across a special diet, the Ketogenic Diet, that held out promise. Rather than let the doctors do the surgery in their local hospital, the mother takes the boy to Johns Hopkins Hospital for the diet. It starts out with fasting! At the same time we can assume that the priest and nuns at the convent where they are staying are praying for the little boy. For those who don't have an epileptic child, the real impact of this movie is not felt until the end when you discover that many of the characters were actual child epileptic patients who had been completely freed of epilepsy though the diet, most now adults! Families with an epileptic child will have much to discuss from this movie . . . and maybe even new hope!Movie Review: Emotional and right on target!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first watched this movie years ago, it touched me, but at the time I had no idea how deeply it would touch me in the future. A few years after watching this movie my 2 year old son suddenly began having seizures, 100's of them. He went through excactly what First Do No Harm portrays, drug reactions, personality changes, near death experiences, non stop seizing...it was a nightmare. Then I remember this movie. I began researching the Ketogenic Diet, I talked with our specialist about it only to be told the diet was too difficult and it could not be done. I did not give up, I went to another doc and asked for my son to begin the diet. A few short weeks later my son was fasting, and I was weighing every bite of food that he consumed, mainly cream, oil, butter, etc...it was our miracle diet. after 2 weeks of the diet my Luke laughed for the first time in months! I'll never forget that day.
First Do No Harm is a perfect movie and everyone should be blessed to watch it, it certainly gives an inside view to the world of severe epilpesy. Praying for all those affects with epilepsy.
Movie Review: PASSIONATE AND EVOCATIVE
Summary: 5 Stars
Although one could dismiss this film as an extended commercial for the ketogenic diet, one also can't help but admit to the power the film contains. Buoyed by the incredible performance of Meryl Streep, FIRST DO NO HARM looks at our medical system and how it sometimes disregards the needs and desires of the patients and their families. Epilepsy is portrayed as a truly horrible disease, and when it attacks someone so young as little Robbie in this film, it only increases its destruction. How this affects a normal family and how they manage to cope with its repercussions is poignantly captured in this movie. Streep is brilliant as always and she is given good support from Fred Ward in one of his best performances and Allison Janney as the seemingly heartless doctor who negates the diet itself. Interspersed are "real" people who have benefitted from the diet in small roles. Little Seth Adkins is remarkable as Robbie, he truly makes us believe he has epilepsy. While it may be considered manipulative and one-sided, FIRST DO NO HARM is undeniably a powerful film.Movie Review: First Do No Harm
Summary: 5 Stars
As I person with Epilepsy who has lived with it since I was a child, this movie hit home to me. My father bought this as a gift for me. I was never on the ketogenic diet when I was a child, but have gone though most of the medications that have been put onto the market. Watching this movie reminded me of what my parents went through, and are still going through with my intractable epilepsy, in dealing with my epilepsy. I was blest with good neurologists as a pediactric and now at Cleveland Clinic.
I found the acting to be superb as it showed how a family stuggles day to day with intractable epilepsy. Watching the scenes where the parents were learning and haveing to accept that their child had epilepsy had a profound effect on me. Seeing Meryl Streep take her character as Robbie's mother in such a strong way reminded me of how my own mother drew strength with how she dealt with my epilepsy. I would recommend this movie to all parents with children with epilepsy. Epilepsy is NOT who they are; it what they have.
Movie Review: great movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I used this movie for a class that I teach, Medical Law & Ethics for a Medical Assisting school. this is a fantastic movie in and of itself. It worked so well for my class and really hit a spot of reviewing ethics. It also showed the length a parent will go to save their own child. I was trying to convey the parent/child medical professional/parent relationship and this movie made that possible.
I will continue to use this movie to get the point across to my classes. Not only was the movie well made but it also featured several patients that suffer from the problems this family endured and conquered. Great planning on the production of the movie---using true life characters in something so very important. That was a double impact for my students.