The movie is very Well made and I enjoyed the story yet there is one aspect that I find very upsetting. The movie, in my opinion, is too antagonistic against traditional medicine and gives you a message not to trust doctors. The doctors are portrayed as ignorant and cold bent on treating the poor suffering kid like a lab rat and almost killing it. The truth is - there is no cure-all drug or medical approach. Every human is different and responds differently to different medication and unless you try it out there is no way to know How the particular person will react. It is even stated in the movie (though briefly) that 70% of kids with epilepsy are cured by the drugs they gave to Robbie- yet there always will be cases of people not responding or having side effects. In such case the only way to go is to try a different drug. Those guys were doing What they could to help him. True, I am against narrow mindedness (like reluctance to try different approaches when standard medicine doesnt work) but I do have understanding - Robbie's doctor was simply worried that the keto diet wont work and the boy will die (which in fact could have happened). After all the movie also says that the keto did not work in every single case (1/3 of the patients got better - less than patients on the standard drugs). If Robbie didnt respond and died then his doctor would be guilty.
Doctors are not evil and just try to do What they feel is right. They can't be always right but their intentions are to help you.
Doctors are not evil and just try to do What they feel is right. They can't be always right but their intentions are to help you.