What if Humphrey Bogart played it again as an Aussie GP?
Dr John Buckley gave voice to the inner thoughts of doctors through the medium of 'film noir'.
It was a WONCA presentation unlike any other, punctuated by laughs, applause, and even a call for an encore, with not a PowerPoint slide in sight.
Dr John Buckley’s short play ‘What Would Humphrey Bogart Think?’ attracted standing room only at the WONCA World Conference 2023 session in Sydney last Thursday.
Delegates may have come for the intriguing title, but stayed for the humour, warmth and humanity of Dr Buckley’s exploration of the unspoken thoughts of a GP while seeing a patient.
The GP and longstanding Queensland medical educator says he wanted to create a light and humorous way to look at what goes on in a doctor’s mind during a consultation.
