Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This personal world of housecalls and stethoscopes in black bags is gone. "Instead of spending forty-five minutes listening to the chest and palpating the abdomen, the doctor can sign a slip which sends the patient off to the X-ray department for a CT scan," Thomas observes, continuing later that "the doctor can set himself, if he likes, at a distance, remote from the patient and the family, never touching anyone beyond a perfunctory handshake as the first and only contact...
...only have the tools at the doctor's disposal changed, but so has the doctor-patient relationship. In the early 1900s, a doctor was primarily a comforter, someone who stayed at the side of the patient and tried to guide him through his illness. More than anything, the doctor's function was the "laying on of hands," the handling and touching of the patient in an effort to provide much needed attention...
LOVESICK leaves the viewer like a partygoer with an empty stomach, stuffed with a vast array of reheated gimmicks from other movies but still lacking a satisfying main course. This latest Hollywood release stars Dudley Moore as another New York psychiatrist who falls in love with his lovely neurotic patient (Elizabeth McGovern) to the accompaniment of innumerable cute gimmicky scenes. In both content and style, the material proves merely a rehash of past comedies, romantic comedies, and comedies about psychiatry...
...plot is standard romantic comedy fare. A successful married man falls passionately in love with his young, talented patient, and a few unusual plot twists do not compensate for the otherwise bland progression of the storyline. The standard comedic treatment of psychiatry as a profession--which makes Saul Benjamin, the Dudley Moore character, slowly turn as nutty as most of his patients, while the script simultaneously mocks all other psychiatrists with their idiosyncracies--falls flat this time because each gag seems isolated, expected to sustain itself. Benjamin's patient merely represent all the familiar crazies of past sitcoms, such...
BENJAMIN'S DEVELOPING PASSION for his patient. Chloe, follows the usual pattern for middle-aged men who lust after beautiful, available young women. His marriage gets shoved into nebulous dimensions and isn't brought back until late in the movie, when it turns out that his wife too is having an affair. Immorality as an issue never comes up: Benjamin's seduction of Chloe seems not only hackneyed but the norm for society as a whole...