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In the movie “Captain Phillips”, there is a patient at the end of the film that goes by the name of Richard Phillips, he is a white male from the United States with a college education who was also a part of the middle class and he is around the age of 50 years old. He was the captain of a large cargo ship in that was going across the middle of the Indian Ocean. In the film he is being seen by medical professionals because his ship was hijacked and he was taken hostage by Somali pirates. After a couple days of Richard Phillips being taken hostage the Navy Seals arrived and shot and killed the Somali pirates that hijacked the cargo ship. After Captain Phillips was safe from the Somali pirates they took him to a safe area and had medical professionals check him out to see if he had any health problems. …show more content…

The nurse then asked him, “Can you talk?” and Captain Phillips responds, “I’m okay!”. The nurse quickly responds back, “Are you okay? You don’t look okay, are you in any pain?”. Captain Phillips then points to his left side without saying anything, the nurse says, “On your side? Okay! Let me see it really quick, can you lift up your arm?” As she lifts up his arm he begins to tear up and can barely talk when she ask him if it hurt, he responded while fighting back tears, “A little

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