The Empiricist, the movie (DVD/CD Set)

This movie is about being true to oneself, and about finding the truth.The story centers around two main characters, Winston and Claire. When we meet them, Winston is a second year resident in internal medicine at a modern city hospital in the United States. His fiancée, Claire, is the librarian in the hospital where he works.Problems arise as Winston encounters patients that are considered “cured” of their disease but are becoming progressively more miserable. The patients experience a range of debilitating symptoms, despite the fact he is not able to find anything wrong with them (no tests can detect pathology). Winston is deeply troubled by this. It seems that the various surgeries and treatments have left his patients worse off, and he questions if orthodox medicine has the answers.Claire tries, to no avail, to lift his spirits, and she begins to think there is something wrong with Winston. In her concern, Claire seeks council from a close girlfriend, Eileen, and during that conver