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Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), the chief of medicine in a New York City teaching hospital, is contemplating suicide. Hes impotent, his wife has left him, and his children arent 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 Drummond (Dame Diana Rigg), whose father is a patient. As Barbara restores Bocks will to live, it turns out that the hospital deaths are murders.
The personal life of Dr. Herbert Bock, the Chief of Medicine at Manhattan Medical Center, which also operates as a teaching hospital, is in shambles as he and his longtime wife have split once again after years of a dysfunctional marriage - he having moved into a shabby hotel - and blames himself both for the way their two now grown offspring turned out and thus the reason for not much liking them. He will be walking into this day at the hospital which seems to be in equal shambles, his ability to cope not great seeing as to his personal situation. Beyond a demonstration outside the hospital in protest to they developing an adjacent property, the demonstration with which the frazzled Chief of Administrative, Dr. John Sundstrom, will primarily have to deal, a young resident Dr. Howard Schaefer has been discovered dead in one of the hospital beds, in what at first glance looks to be a case of malpractice of the hospital. These two items are just the highest profile, at least for staff, of the many problems that are emerging at the hospital this day as they have to put out one fire after another, those fires seemingly caused by mismanagement and/or incompetence. But as more medical staff are found dead around the hospital by unusual circumstances, there may more at play this day than initially thought. Through all this chaos, Bock may find some meaning in life in dealing with the case of patient Edward Drummond, who came into the hospital a relatively healthy man, but who has fallen into a coma the result of that staff mismanagement/incompetence. That meaning comes in the form of Drummonds daughter, Barbara Drummond, an RN herself, who wants to take her father back to Mexico where he had been doing missionary work.
George C. Scott
Dr. Herbert Bock
Diana Rigg
Barbara Drummond
Barnard Hughes
Drummond
Richard Dysart
Dr. Welbeck
Stephen Elliott
Dr. Sundstrom
Donald Harron
Milton Mead
Andrew Duncan
William Mead
Nancy Marchand
Mrs. Christie
Jordan Charney
Hitchcock
Roberts Blossom
Guernsey
Lenny Baker
Dr. Schaefer
Richard Hamilton
Dr. Ronald Casey
Arthur Junaluska
Mr. Blacktree
Kate Harrington
Nurse Dunne
Katherine Helmond
Marilyn Mead
David Hooks
Dr. Einhorn
Frances Sternhagen
Mrs. Cushing
Robert Walden
Dr. Brubaker
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