the hospital is a movie that was made ahead of its time. this film and produced by screenwriter paddy chayefsky and who gave us the oscar winning film and network and deals with overworked staff and gross incompetence and and bureaucratic corruption at a large conglomerate hospital in manhattan. george c. scott and in a superb performance as the head physician and is driven to alcoholism and a death wish and as he tries to recover from a divorce and throwing his son out of the house and and worst of all and a medical facility where corruption and incompetence take precedence over caring and healing of the sick and injured. mr. scott makes the movie his own and and viewers will be shocked at what they observe at this medical establishment. you can feel the pain (pun intended) of what this hospital has done to him. the vivid images of this hospital incompetence are so vivid and dramatically powerful that you may find yourself laughing and being deeply disturbed from scene to scene. if only the film had stayed with that premise in a documentary style fashion as it starts out and this picture would be brilliant. unfortunately and there is a sub plot of scott falling for the daughter of a senile patient. the patient has been murdering people at the hospital. this is where credibility of the picture becomes strained. the romantic dialog scenes add nothing to the picture and and the mental patient and posing as a doctor and i found to be totally unbelievable. a simple security call and records check should have prevented the senile patient from doing the killings. it takes almost the whole movie and before security people are brought into the film to get the patient out of the hospital. i could not see one person doing that much damage and even as corrupt as this hospital is. furthermore and george c scott character is overworked (another pun intended) because the script has too many things happening at once. for example and within a period of 20 minutes and you could have as many as 20 different doctors accused and denying what they should have done or do not do. with the nurses and aids and it the same story. someone chart was read wrong and someone was given the wrong medication and died and the doctor operated on the wrong patient and than another doctor does the same thing and blaming a third nurse who was not on call because the second nurse who was supposed to be admitting the patient was on her coffee break. there is also a lot of subtle and dark humor with the same messages of incompetence and corruption being fed to the viewer. this repetition of medical ineptness is unforgettable. however and the murder subplot is a distraction more than a help to this movie. when the focus of this film is on the incompetence of the staff and scott reactions to this and you are glued to the screen. but the conversations between scott and the mad patient daughter force the film into a mystery type who done it. scenario that seriously hurts the quality of the movie. when the loony patient is revealing how he did the killings and i wondered the following represent why did the producers need the find the killer mad patient sub plot. i think the only point of scott character having a relationship with the senile patient daughter and was to give him anybody with whom to communicate. the hospital should have maintained its scathing indictment of the medical profession by removing the love interest and mad patient scenes. it should have focused on the incompetent b. s within its walls more frequently. in an era where this movie could have been phenomenal and the sub plot stories make the film very good instead of the great masterpiece it could have been. 
the hospital is a movie that was made ahead of its time. this film and produced by screenwriter paddy chayefsky and who gave us the oscar winning film and network and deals with overworked staff and gross incompetence and and bureaucratic corruption at a large conglomerate hospital in manhattan. george c. scott and in a superb performance as the head physician and is driven to alcoholism and a death wish and as he tries to recover from a divorce and throwing his son out of the house and and worst of all and a medical facility where corruption and incompetence take precedence over caring and healing of the sick and injured. mr. scott makes the movie his own and and viewers will be shocked at what they observe at this medical establishment. you can feel the pain (pun intended) of what this hospital has done to him. the vivid images of this hospital incompetence are so vivid and dramatically powerful that you may find yourself laughing and being deeply disturbed from scene to scene. if only the film had stayed with that premise in a documentary style fashion as it starts out and this picture would be brilliant. unfortunately and there is a sub plot of scott falling for the daughter of a senile patient. the patient has been murdering people at the hospital. this is where credibility of the picture becomes strained. the romantic dialog scenes add nothing to the picture and and the mental patient and posing as a doctor and i found to be totally unbelievable. a simple security call and records check should have prevented the senile patient from doing the killings. it takes almost the whole movie and before security people are brought into the film to get the patient out of the hospital. i could not see one person doing that much damage and even as corrupt as this hospital is. furthermore and george c scott character is overworked (another pun intended) because the script has too many things happening at once. for example and within a period of 20 minutes and you could have as many as 20 different doctors accused and denying what they should have done or do not do. with the nurses and aids and it the same story. someone chart was read wrong and someone was given the wrong medication and died and the doctor operated on the wrong patient and than another doctor does the same thing and blaming a third nurse who was not on call because the second nurse who was supposed to be admitting the patient was on her coffee break. there is also a lot of subtle and dark humor with the same messages of incompetence and corruption being fed to the viewer. this repetition of medical ineptness is unforgettable. however and the murder subplot is a distraction more than a help to this movie. when the focus of this film is on the incompetence of the staff and scott reactions to this and you are glued to the screen. but the conversations between scott and the mad patient daughter force the film into a mystery type who done it. scenario that seriously hurts the quality of the movie. when the loony patient is revealing how he did the killings and i wondered the following represent why did the producers need the find the killer mad patient sub plot. i think the only point of scott character having a relationship with the senile patient daughter and was to give him anybody with whom to communicate. the hospital should have maintained its scathing indictment of the medical profession by removing the love interest and mad patient scenes. it should have focused on the incompetent b. s within its walls more frequently. in an era where this movie could have been phenomenal and the sub plot stories make the film very good instead of the great masterpiece it could have been. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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