Iron Man<\/a>.\u00a0 I was especially intrigued by the portrayal of the character Tony Stark.\u00a0 After being captured and injured by the people that used the weapons systems he had created, Stark\u2019s character takes a 180.\u00a0 He decides to fight the bad guys anyway he can, and does so in an iron suit with a literally \u201cbroken heart.\u201d<\/p>\nI am a Marvel Comics fan from way back, but this character didn\u2019t really interest me until I watched this movie.\u00a0 You see, I was rather bothered by his moniker \u201cIron Man.\u201d\u00a0 Really? Iron is so brittle, how can that ever compare to, say, the man of steel?<\/p>\n
Can we have brittle super-heroes that have electronic hearts?\u00a0 Yes, we can.\u00a0 Can patients who have been injured and are bitter create a world with patient centered care? Yes, they can.<\/p>\n
I was most impressed at the end of the film.\u00a0 Tony is considering reading a prepared statement explaining away the elements of the battle and excusing the antics of this fellow in the Iron suit.\u00a0 In front of a crowd of reporters, Tony abandon\u2019s the contrived remarks and exclaims, \u201cI am Iron Man.\u201d<\/p>\n
With this statement he has abandoned a secret identity.\u00a0 He is a person and a super-hero.\u00a0\u00a0 Tony Stark was just like all of the wonderful people at IHI who stood proudly before us wearing badges that said their name and affixed to a blue ribbon stating \u201cPatient Activist.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Guest post by SPM member Regina Holliday. Perhaps because my world-view is shaped by the escapades and explanations of active little boys, I often speak of super-heroes in relation to health care.\u00a0 I listen daily to tales of poisonous spider bites, DNA mutations and dangerous levels of exposure to radiation.\u00a0 And unlike the conversations I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,62],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-positive-patterns","category-reforming-healthcare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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