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Synopsis: Idealistic lawyers Mike Weiss and Paul Danziger are partners. Mike is a drug-addict and Paul is a family man with a pregnant wife. When nurse Vicky Rogers seeks them out, they learn that she contracted AIDS a couple of years ago when she was accidentally pinpricked with a contaminated needle by a violent patient. Vicky shows a retractable safety needle invented by engineer Jeffrey Matthew Dancort, who owns the Safety Point Company, but is unable to sell his product to any hospital from the United Medical group, apart from San Antonio Memorial. Danziger and Weiss accept the case and go to court against United Medical, defended by powerful lawyer Nathaniel Price. Soon, they see all the doors closed in their fight against the powerful mafia of the medical supply system.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Adam Kassen, Mark Kassen
Production: Millennium Entertainment
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
2011
100 min
$67,071
Website
391 Views


Yeah, we do. lt's a terrible

shame.

We've been best friend since

kid.

That's really hit me. l spent a

year working on...

Developing the concept.

And no one ever use it?

St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital

used it for 2 years.

- How's that working out? - Not

a single needle stick accident

in 2 years.

So there's no way you can get

stuck with this thing?.

Can't get stuck with it. Can't

re-use it.

Doctors love it. Nurses were

begging for it.

Only St. Anthony's Memorial

would buy it.

Why?.

l hope you guys can tell me

that.

Okay, as start you should call

of weeks.

Then let us know exactly what

their response...

- 200 hospital? - l know it

sound like a lot, Mr. Dancort...

But what we gonna do here, we

need data...

l already calls 2.000 hospital.

What they say when you show

them the needle?

They asked me to leave.

ls there any way we can sue a

hospital for not...

Buying something that saves

people's life?

He's good.

He's very good.

Can l talk to Karen Brown?

Sure, no problem. Talk.

On the phone you were aware of

the high number of accidental

needle sticks.

How about 800.000 a year.

- ls that an accurate number?. -

You don't believe me?

No, it's not l don't believe

you. l just...

l wanna know it its an accurate

number.

l, Karen Brown, Texas Nurses

Association District 5, do

officially swear...

That, that number is accurate.

Better?.

Look, l'm just trying get

better understanding here...

Good. Well, here's what you

need to understand.

Right? The major cause of these

diseases, Hepatitis B...

Hepatitis C, HlV are affecting

all front line health workers...

ls because of accidental needle

sticks.

- Okay?. - Okay.

The reason l'm here cause my

client is has invented a safety

needle...

That could prevent this from

ever happening again.

Then don't talk to me.

- Who should l talk to? - The

purchasing department.

Of course it is. Thank you.

- Mr. Weismann. - Weiss.

- Mr. Weiss. - Mike, please.

Mr. Weiss, l cannot and went

out look at your needle.

Why?.

Because of the purchasing

contracts on the hospital house.

Well, will you at least look at

this data?

- No. - Would you mind telling

me why?.

l don't want you to show me

your data...

And l don't want you to show

this product at my nurses.

Because they'll want it.

And they can't have it.

What kind of shirt was it?

Was it a nice shirt?

Just Mr. Phoenix's Eagle. lt

was nice.

Was it is a special shirt?

Special?

Maybe it was a gift?

lt was just a shirt.

How much did you say it cost?

- l don't remember. - Let just

say $ 70.

Sylvia, can you...

Try Mike again please?

Not if you wanna leave here

with all that 10 tiny little

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