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  1. ...First Do No Harm

    ...First Do No Harm

    PG-131997 · Drama · 1h 37m

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  1. Feb 16, 1997 · Featured review. PG-13 - intense emotional and physical depiction of a child's illness. In this alternately heartbreaking and uplifting drama inspired by actual events, a small town Midwest family discovers that their youngest son suffers from epilepsy.

    • (2.1K)
    • Drama
    • Jim Abrahams
    • 1997-02-16
  2. ...First Do No Harm is a 1997 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jim Abrahams about a boy whose severe epilepsy, unresponsive to medications with terrible side effects, is controlled by the ketogenic diet. Aspects of the story mirror Abrahams' own experience with his son Charlie.

  3. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. When debilitating conventional treatments fail, a woman (Meryl Streep) tries a controversial diet for her epileptic son (Seth Adkins).

    • (51)
    • Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat
    • TV-PG
    • Jim Abrahams
  4. May 13, 2003 · So this true story is an important vaccine for people who need to take back responsibility for their families' health. It's a stark contrast and partial antidote to thousands of made-up movie and TV medical stories. Streep, Fred Ward and the rest of the cast are superb.

  5. Typically solid performances by Meryl Streep and Fred Ward as the parents of a child who suffers more from medical treatment than from his illness (epilepsy) don't distinguish this made-for-TV...

  6. Feb 16, 1997 · The movie, its producers say, is a fictionalized interpretation of the true story of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male, a 40-year project in which the United States ...

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  8. Overview. When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and desperate, and so does her own research into the existing literature on treatments.

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