The Hospital (1971)

Actors

• Lenny Baker (actor)
• Norman Berns (actor)
• Charles Bershatsky (actor)
• Roberts Blossom (actor)
• Lonnie Burr (actor)
• Jordan Charney (actor)
• Paddy Chayefsky (actor)
• Alex Colon (actor)
• Matthew Cowles (actor)
• Reid Cruickshanks (actor)
• Dennis Dugan (actor)
• Andrew Duncan (actor)
• Richard Dysart (actor)
• Stephen Elliott (actor)
• Robert Anthony (actor)

Genres

• Comedy
• Drama
• Mystery

Taglines:

Madness, Murder and Malpractice.
Watch them operate!
I may be crazy, but I think I've operated on the wrong patient.
Behind the lab coat beats the heart of a man who's been pushed to the edge.

Quotes:

Edmund Drummond: So at 9:15 this morning I rang for my nurse...::Bock: Rang for your nurse?::Edmund Drummond: To ensure one full hour of uninterrupted privacy.::Bock: Good.

Herbert Bock: I mean, where do you train your nurses, Mrs. Christie - Dachau?

Herbert Bock: Now what in hell am I going to tell this boy Schaefer's parents? That a substitute nurse assassinated him because she couldn't tell the doctors from the patients on the floor?

Herbert Bock: We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

Herbert Bock: You know, when I say impotent, I don't mean merely limp. When I say impotent, I mean I've lost even my desire to work. That's a hell of a lot more primal passion than sex. I've lost my reason for being... my purpose. The only thing I ever truly loved.

Edmund Drummond: I am the fool for Christ, and Paraclete of Caborca.

Barbara: I have a thing about middle-aged men.::Bock: I admire your candor.::Barbara: You've been admiring a lot more than that.

Barbara: It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.

Herbert Bock: It is all rubbish isn't it. I mean... transplants, anti-bodies, we can produce birth ectogenetically, we can clone people like carrots, and half the kids in this ghetto haven't been inoculated for polio. We have established an enormous medical entity and we're sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal, nothing! The whole goddamn wretched world, strangulating in front of our eyes.

Edmund Drummond: This is Dr. Ives. He's in the Nephrology Lab. I was in there a little while ago, and he was suddenly taken ill, and I thought I'd better get him over here right away. He had at that time perhaps an hour to live. Prompt treatment would have saved his life. As a staff doctor, he was seen without preliminaries... His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history... and then he was promptly... simply... forgotten to death.