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Synopsis: Herbert Bock, the chief of medicine in a New York City teaching hospital, is contemplating suicide; he's impotent, his wife has left him, and his children aren't speaking to him. His hospital is also suffering from a recent spate of inexplicable deaths. In the midst of these setbacks, Bock is romantically drawn to the much younger Barbara, whose father is a patient. As Barbara restores Bock's will to live, it turns out that the hospital deaths are murders.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Arthur Hiller
Production: United Artists
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PG-13
Year:
1971
103 min
1,131 Views


- God, it's a Roman farce!

- I thought I heard you out here.

I suggest you do that right now.

I'm so terribly sorry.

As I understand it...

a nurse inadvertently administered an IV

to Schaefer. How could that happen?

- We ought to straighten this out elsewhere.

- Very good idea.

Oh, God, what a mess!

- These things happen.

- I'd better call the Medical Examiner.

- I still don't understand what happened.

- It took us an hour to get it sorted out.

A patient named Guernsey

died last night, in 806.

That information wasn't given

to the night nurses. These things happen.

At any rate, according to the cardex...

the patient, Guernsey, was down

for 25 mg of Sparine at q. 6h.

Mrs. Reardon sent Nurse Perez

to give him his 12:00 shot.

In the meantime, Dr. Schaefer

usurped that particular bed...

for his own purposes.

Dr. Brubaker suggests

it was for a love tryst...

and some weight is given that hypothesis...

- by the fact that Dr. Schaefer was naked.

- I get the drift.

Nurse Perez went in

and sedated Dr. Schaefer...

thinking it was the patient Guernsey.

What I don't understand...

May I finish, please?

After Perez gave him his shot, she noticed

the IV was pinched off on the bed.

She reported this to Mrs. Reardon...

who then assigned Nurse Rivers

to restart the IV.

Rivers was a float. She didn't even know

the staff people on the floor.

Nobody knew what the patient looked like,

since he'd only been admitted that morning.

- So she plugged an IV into him.

- Yes.

- How much?

- A liter.

Five percent glucose solution

won't kill anybody.

Was he dehydrated?

Did he have any ancillary conditions?

Didrt anybody bother to go check on him

during the night?

Even under the impression

that he was merely a patient?

Was he hyperosmolar?

Did he have a bad heart?

He must have had some sort of thrombosis.

I want the post done here, Mr. Hitchcock.

You and I better have a chat

about your excessive use of float nurses.

I've got nearly a thousand nurses

in this hospital...

Every time one of them has her period,

she disappears for three days.

Doctors complain they can't find

the same nurse on the same floor...

two days in a row.

What am I gonna tell Schaefer's parents?

That a substitute nurse assassinated him...

as she couldn't tell the doctors

from the patients on the floor?

My God!

The incompetence here

is absolutely radiant!

Two nurses walk into a room

and stick needles in a man...

and one of those is a Number 18 Jelco,

tourniquet the poor guy...

anchor the poor guy's arm

with adhesive tape...

and it's the wrong poor son of a b*tch!

Where do you train your nurses,

Mrs. Christie? Dachau?

All right.

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Paddy Chayefsky

Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay. more…

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