Strange Angels

Strange angels – / Singing just for me / Old stories – / They’re haunting me / This is nothing like I thought it would be ¶
Well I was out in my four- door / With the top down. / And I looked up / And there they were: millions of tiny teardrops / Just sort of hanging there / And I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry / And I said to myself: / What next, big sky? ¶
Strange angels / – Singing just for me / Their spare change falls on top of me / Rain falling / Falling all over me / All over me / ¶
Strange angels – / Singing just for me / Old stories / – They’re haunting me / Big changes are coming / Here they come / Here they come ¶

Anyone who has ever been through the medical system – even with the very best of treatment – will identify with this film. “The Doctor” tells the story of an aloof, self-centered heart surgeon who treats his patients like names on a list. Then he gets sick himself, and doesn’t like it one bit when he’s treated like a mere patient. . . .
This is devastating news, which he receives with disbelief. How could a master of medicine like himself become its victim? . . .
For the first time, he grows close to a patient, June (Elizabeth Perkins), who has a brain tumor. They meet daily while they’re having their treatments. . . .
Threatened with his own mortality, he turns to June not for romantic reasons but as a fellow traveler in the same path. Their scenes together are handled with quiet tact and gentleness.