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The Doctor

An Uplifting Story About Finding New Meaning In Life.

Rating 6.5 / 10Release July 24, 1991Runtime 122 min

Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.

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