When neurointensivist Dr. Eelco Wijdicks published the original Neurocinema: When Film Meets Neurology in 2014, his collection of film essays summarizing the portrayal of major neurologic syndromes and clinical signs in cinema served to underscore the field’s existence by being its premier textbook. Therein the medically-inclined movie buff or the film-frenzied clinician could explore medicine as it appeared on the big screen and better understand what the effects of medicine on film have played in our cultural milieu over time.
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