Why see the film when you can read the article? by Robert E. Pyatt Ph.D. Assistant Laboratory Director Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, Ohio
This is a comparison of classic films and science articles that share the same name. The movie facts come from the Internet Movie Database (www.IMDB.com). Information about the science articles comes from the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/).
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) Starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef. Directed by Sergio Leone. Spaghetti Western set against the backdrop of the Civil War where 3 men, the good (Eastwood), the bad (Van Cleef), and the ugly (Wallach), race to uncover a hidden stash of Confederate gold. “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (with Apologies to Sergio Leone)” M.V. Connelly, Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America, vol. 16, no. 2, May 2008 pp. 179–82 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsc.2007.11.005). Tales of a plastic surgery practice set in a small city including the good (well informed patients who follow all pre and post-op instructions and are “thoroughly pleased with the postoperative results”), the bad (patients who “bring you grief and perhaps damage your reputation”), and the ugly (“disparaging remarks from another surgeon in your area”).
(That’s an excerpt from the article “PubMed Goes to the Movies!,” by Robert E. Pyatt Ph.D, Published in AIR 14:5.)