title: [Cinema and professional vocation].
abstract: Commercial cinema is both narrative art and a widely-used mass medium that is built upon human stories. Among the contents of these stories there are many vocational aspects. Taking advantage of these circumstances we will proceed to analyze health vocations through eight films. Patch Adams allows us to approach the fulfillment of vocation, which has not been an easy task for women, as we can see in Allá en el setenta y tantos. Vocational fulfillment is at the core of the plot in The Citadel. Something the Lord Made is a good example to illustrate an unfulfilled vocation, in the same way as Awakenings and Arrowsmith represent the fulfillment of an unexpected vocation and a long pursued one. Finally, vocation can demand great sacrifices, which is made crystal clear in Korczak, and when vocation is not strictly followed it might lead to the greatest abominations, which is the case in "The Fugitive. "
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca. joegas@usal.es
authors.forename: José Elías
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: García Sánchez
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D006281:Health Occupations; D006801:Humans; D009040:Motion Pictures