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Article: The Doctor.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 26, 1991
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On a slightly, but only slightly, higher level, there is The Doctor. Here we have an eminent heart surgeon, Jack MacKee, played by William Hurt (better than Ford), who has become arrogant with success and affluence; his San Francisco lifestyle is the exact counterpart of Ford's New York one. Though he cures most of his patients, his cocky, wisecracking manner bruises their egos; his wife and son must live in their own worlds, too, at arm's length. Then Jack is diagnosed as having a malignant tumor in his throat. Though a patient at the hospital where he is a surgeon, he gets little or no special treatment. (Believe that who will.) Doctors, nurses, orderlies, other ...