Extremis

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Oaklee D A short documentary that pulls the curtain back on end of life care. Must watch. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/12/24 Full Review Wolfgang G Extremis ist eine Kurz-Dokumentarfilm von Dan Krauss (Regie)... Ein Dokumentarfilm über Ärzte, Patienten und deren Familien bei ihren Entscheidungen auf der Intensivstation… Ein Blick auf die Sterbebegleitung, wie sie wirklich ist… Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/16/23 Full Review No t I really didn't like that doctor who kept trying to convince family to call it quits. I'm a doctor as well and I think one of the biggest aspects to patient recovery is hope and this doctor is a disgrace to me. If a family member chooses to give up, that's on them. As a doctor, your place is not to nudge family decisions one way or another. It is also irresponsible to inflate the bad while downplaying the possibilities. Your job is to deliver the facts, let the newly informed family decide what they want to do, and then execute an action plan based on the family's decisions. If I had a chair on the boards, I'd pull her license. What a disgrace. I gave a lower star amount because of the "euthanasia" propaganda but I like how insightful the show is in depicting what patients and their families must face. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/18/23 Full Review Audience Member For Netflix (or today's documentary) standards: very short, very specific. But can you really fault them? It's ~20 minutes of peeking behind the curtain of end-of-life decisions in a hospital, so well filmed that I had to check to make sure this wasn't a fictional account. The music and tone was fairly somber throughout, and the opinions of the people were varied. Some people got more treatment than others, which is just the nature of the case here. We got a grand total of maybe 60 seconds of a 38-year-old new grandmother. We got maybe 90 seconds of a homeless man. We see some religious folk with conflicting desires about trusting the will of God in death versus wanting to give their loved ones a fighting chance at staying alive and being miraculously healed. On the other side of things, it is a bit unsettling that the doctors sometimes seem to take such a (for lack of better description) careless attitude towards the sick and dying. By the end, I was glad I watched it, and I was glad it was only ~20 minutes. It was sad enough as it was, and drawing it out would either make it even sadder or make it... well, drawn out. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member If you want to watch a movie that makes Awakenings look like the funniest comedy you've ever seen, then this movie is for you. It is 100000000000000000000000000000000000% torture. I don't even think that's kind enough. It was the most miserable movie I have ever seen, period. I'm not trying to be a karen here... I'm just saying. To say it's painful, is like saying the pain endured by the characters in Hellraiser was akin to eating am ice cream Sunday. I wish there were more profoundly painful words to describe this movie. If you've lost someone close, NOT THE MOVIE FOR YOU. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Thank you Netflix. I could feel the horror and pain every second watching it. It is a highly sensitive subject and being able to do justice from the patient's point of view in 20 odd minutes is a great achievement. Would have loved to see in detail the roller coaster of emotions and judgements doctors go through too. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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