The movie "Wit" is a heartbreaking story about a middle-aged woman named Vivian Bearing who was diagnosed with stage four metastasized ovarian cancer. She accepts a vigorous experimental "full dose" chemotherapy treatment in which she is treated less like a human being but more like a guinea pig by her oncologist Dr. Kelekian and her former student Dr. Jason. She experiences the harsh side effects of chemotherapy which lead her to reflect on her life through flashbacks. Flashbacks travel back to various periods of her life, such as childhood, graduate school, and professional career, before her cancer diagnosis, where she realizes that she too could have been kinder to people. Vivian Bearing is single, middle-aged. elderly woman who prides herself on being an uncompromising and extremely difficult university professor of 17th century English poetry. When she receives the diagnosis from Dr. Kelekian, she seems to take it very well and is realistic about her prognosis, but as her harsh treatment and illness progresses she wishes she had asked more questions about the treatment. Experience serious side effects of “full dose” chemotherapy treatments such as nausea, vomiting, fever, and chills. In the film Vivian says she was asked "How do you feel?" while vomiting into a basin. She is asked this question so often and regularly that it begins to completely lose its true meaning. The treatment Vivian receives from both Dr. Kelekian and Dr. Jason is almost intolerable. At various points in the film we are exposed to the harsh care provided by both doctors, but especially Dr. Jason. She is treated scrupulously and carelessly and less like a human... middle of paper... research experiment and not like a patient or with the decency she deserved. Some of the things the doctors did to Vivian were so immoral and so inhumane that it makes one shudder to think about it. Luckily for Vivian, Susie was the light at the end of the tunnel. She provided compassionate, kind and professional care. I hope that in the future I can embody the qualities that Susie had and show them to my patients on a daily basis. In nursing school we are so focused on knowing the science behind everything or dispensing medications on time that we forget why we became nurses in the first place. We became nurses so we could care for others who couldn't care for themselves. Susie was the true definition of a nurse and provided Vivian with compassionate patient-centered care allowing her to die in a dignified and meaningful manner.