Donovan's Paradigm

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Paradigm – A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline. One that serves as a pattern or model.

Ten years of medical school and surgical residency has left Kim Donovan eager to spread her wings and shake up the medical establishment with her ideas regarding the future medicine. Not satisfied with the paradigm of "this is how we've always done it," Kim uses this mantra to propel her to a new job in Washington D.C. where she sets out to gather support for a controversial treatment program on the surgical floor.

Erik Behler, St. Vincent's respected senior surgeon finds himself intrigued with Kim but is caught off guard with her against-all-odds attitude over her contentious and divisive ideas. Their professional standoff bleeds over to their budding relationship and ignites tension for those who practice within St. Vincent's walls.

Kim is left searching for a balance between loving a man who has the power to make or break her credibility and staying true to the medical beliefs that could affect thousands. Her decision made, she charges ahead, failing to consider that hers and Erik's personal paradigms are also at risk.

The surprise hit movie, What The Bleep Do We Know?, has captured the growing belief that there exists a connection between the healing capabilities of the body, mind and spirit and put it on center stage. Donovan's Paradigm carries that idea a step further and presents a microcosm of the divisiveness currently taking place in Western medicine. As the American populace searches for a balance of total health and wellness, they are often at the mercy of their physician's belief system.