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This is evident through Vivian’s experience in the movie, “Wit,” as it affects her in a negative manner. It leaves her feeling lonely and isolated, and essentially lifeless until she eventually dies. While going through her chemotherapy she documented her feelings both mental and physical, and there was no case where she was even happy. Professionalism in medicine forms the foundation for patient-physician trust, but because of set policies and procedures physicians need to follow the negative impacts because increased with their institutional care, as patients feel hopeless and neglected. Patient-physician care lacked the emotional connection and personal contact needed when going through treatment. There have been severe hesitations about professional power amongst commentators on physicians with institutional care. This leads to the belief that the biomedical model has authority figures holding too much power over patients and has them following too many set policies where patient care gets