Film Medical Theme: Diabete

Just Before Dawn

Language : English

Year : 1946

Medical Theme : Diabetes / Insulin

Actors : Warner Baxter, Adele Roberts, Martin Kosleck, Mona Barrie

Storline : Dr.Robert Ordway is summoned to attend to a diabetic and he gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought as insulin was really poison.

Memento

Language : English

Year : 2000

Medical Theme : Amnesia / Diabetes

Actors : Guy Pearce, Carrie- Anne Moss, Joe Pantotiano, Stephen Tobolowsky

Storline : A man suffering from short term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife. Leonard is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's murder.

Panic Room

Language : English

Year : 2002

Medical Theme : Diabetes /hypoglycemia

Actors : Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker

Storline : Recently divorced Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah have bought a new home in New York. When three burglers break-in, both mother and daughter take refuge in the most secure room called panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room. Sarah is diabetic and collapses due to hypoglycemia caused by her diabetes. Unfortunately, the glycagon injections are in the fridge. How should the mother reach the fridge and save her daughter's life?