The medical documentary ＂Life on Earth＂ was praised： the real power touched people’s hearts the most.

　　Recently, the documentary "Life on Earth" caused quite a shock, not only popular social networks, but also scored 9.7 on Douban after the last episode was broadcast the night before, which was described as "going against the sky". Curiously, why is such a documentary that will cause discomfort in perception popular? Can it promote the communication and understanding of the doctor-patient relationship? Some voices pointed out that at the moment when reality shows and fantasy dramas dominate the screen, it can be described as a clean stream, and the truth it shows can touch people’s hearts most.

　　Do not play cards according to common sense and present death intuitively

　　In the first episode, "Human Life" directly presented a failed medical case, which made people face death directly. In the film, Zhao Qiang, director of cardiac surgery department of Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, received Wang Bin, a 27-year-old patient with Marfan syndrome. This congenital disease is synonymous with "death" in the medical field. The patient’s aorta will tear at any time and he will die of massive bleeding. If you want to save him, you must replace all the aorta of the patient with artificial blood vessels, which is equivalent to "half a person has to cut it open." But he accepted the operation, but finally the next day after the operation, patient Wang Bin didn’t survive because of acute renal failure.

　　The second episode "Understanding" tells the story of the 120 ambulance, which reflects various reasons for delaying the ambulance in reality.

　　The ninth episode "Love" is the one that makes the audience cry the most. In the program, Zhang Lijun, 26, was married to her husband for less than a year, and was pregnant for five months, but was diagnosed with terminal cancer. At this point, the patient needs to make a decision, whether to be born or not? Finally, the patient chose to have a caesarean section when she was 7 months pregnant. The premature baby weighed just over 2 kg, but it showed great vitality. With the progress of treatment, her hair fell off and she could not see one eye. While eating the reunion dinner, the family’s mixed smiles and tears were impressive. For this reason, countless people are moved by the spiritual willpower of the parties, the great maternal love and the feelings of ordinary people.

　　The audience felt: objective and positive is the best place.

　　For these true stories, many viewers said that they "cried and watched the program", and many characters were memorable: "There are strong mothers who have been afraid to cry all the time, and finally burst into tears when signing and dying, and there are those who dare not write down ‘ Give up treatment ’ The shaking hands, the patient who smiled pale at the camera one second and then lay down in the hospital bed with no breath, the paramedic who slept day and night, the patient who just got a liver transplant and regained life, and the family members who were finally rescued with joy, whether it was silent tears or heartbreaking wailing, are all touching forces. This documentary truly tells us that there are many joys and sorrows in the world.

　　Another audience thinks that the program reminds people to cherish the present, "How precious and fragile is life? Faced with the dilemma of choosing whether to do or not to do surgery, the pain of pious prayer but not returning to life is hidden in the film. Please realize the preciousness of life and cherish the people around you. "

　　"Life on Earth" also broke the traditional plot routine of "rejuvenation with wonderful hands" in the past, and truly described the doctor’s inner pain and life struggle. Some netizens commented: "I have seen too much ‘ Perfect ’ Medical publicity, such an angle is even more touching. " Some people feel the same way: "Sometimes healing, often helping, always comforting, very objective and positive, this is the original appearance of medical care."

　　The crew responded to the question:

　　"There is no element of directing in advance."

　　It is reported that the filming time of "Human Life" is close to two years, and it goes deep into the front line of medical treatment and operating table, intuitively showing the various situations that doctors have in the race against death. Some doctors are helpless and frustrated when they face failure, some patients say goodbye when they face the end of their lives, and some families are anxious to wait when they face the unknown. When shooting, the photographer "put on" all the equipment, even if the patient’s blood splashed on his face, he was unmoved, which is evident in the hardships.

　　Despite this, in addition to word of mouth, there are also different opinions. Some people questioned that "shooting affects treatment": "It is hard to say whether shooting will interfere with the operation, and whether patients and their families will face the camera in a critical moment will aggravate their tension, which deserves further consideration."

　　Others think that the documentary has the problem of emotional imbalance: "It reflects the doctor’s hard work, the harsh working environment and the mind of saving lives, trying to call for respect for doctors, but the doctor-patient relationship can not be solved simply by understanding doctors, which is a bit superficial and lacks reflection."

　　The general director of "Human World" responded that "recording honestly and expressing sincerely" is the principle of the creative team. No matter whether the film is perfect or not, it must be the result of real recording, and there is no element of prior director and arrangement. Talking about the original intention of shooting, he said: "We hope to take the hospital as the origin, and show a real human world by observing the hospital, a specimen of social contradictions, with both the brilliance of human nature and the helplessness of life."

　　How to shoot a medical documentary?

　　Touching people’s hearts is the key.

　　For a long time, due to the patient’s privacy, medical ethics, the audience’s discomfort with the picture, and the unique contradiction between doctors and patients in China, the number of medical documentary programs is small and the specific operation is very difficult, but there are also some relatively successful works.

　　"Destiny of Life" broadcast by Beijing Satellite TV is a pioneer of this kind of program in China: it extends its tentacles to emergency rooms, rescue rooms and operating rooms, including both monitoring cameras and suction-type cameras installed in ambulances, rescue rooms, labor rooms and other places, from which the audience will touch the state of doctors and patients in the moment of life and death.

　　The "Emergency Room Story", which had gained high reputation before, also aimed the camera at the medical scene, and its ratings were also very bright. Many people also said that it was a "work of conscience". It was shot in the Sixth People’s Hospital of Shanghai, aiming at the joys and sorrows of the emergency room, but using a fixed camera instead of a mobile camera. Doctors and patients often don’t realize that they are being filmed, so as to minimize the interruption of diagnosis and treatment. After doctors get used to it, it is difficult to hide their true emotions and daily habits, which leads to the documentary being more realistic and less deductive.

　　Entertainment theory

　　Accept the cruelty of life and the shock of human heart.

　　Throughout our past medical film and television dramas, some of them did not truly reflect the work and life of medical staff, but dealt with them with dramatic effects, such as doctors singing and flirting in the operating room; Tell jokes to nurses while pushing patients in the emergency room; Chatting in the ward office in overalls and eating at will; There are even many loopholes in professional issues such as how to hold a scalpel. These things are not allowed in any hospital in reality.

　　When the real situation of the hospital is covered by gag, many people are influenced by this kind of industry drama, which is likely to aggravate the misunderstanding of doctors and medical care.

　　Seeing this, if the writers and directors in medical drama can take more snacks, carry out more field work before writing, and ask more experts during the process of writing, there will not be so many jokes in the play, and it will not help or even be detrimental to the improvement of the doctor-patient relationship.

　　In this regard, it is self-evident that medical documentaries that do not shy away from the conflict between doctors and patients and adopt a real style, and it is expected that they will be supported by the audience. Of course, we can’t expect a documentary to improve the contradiction between doctors and patients much, but it at least makes us realize that in many cases, the fuse that intensifies the contradiction between doctors and patients is often not the doctor’s dereliction of duty or reckless behavior, or the poor quality of the people and the unreasonable troubles of their families, but that many people can’t accept the variables and risks in medicine, and anyone’s mood will be amplified in the face of human life. In this sense, the broadcast of this documentary enables us to "enhance our understanding through understanding". Although doctors are regarded as angels in white, they are human beings, not gods, and may run slower than "death".

　　As described in the film, the patient died, but the family members were still grateful to the doctor, saying that "life must go on and we will do everything as usual". Therefore, we also need to accept the cruelty of life replacement and the shock that people’s hearts bring to everyone when facing death.