- A hospital's chief-of-staff struggles to find meaning in his life during a spate of staff deaths.
- Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), 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 Drummond (Dame Diana Rigg), whose father is a patient. As Barbara restores Bock's will to live, it turns out that the hospital deaths are murders.—Jwelch5742
- 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 Drummond's daughter, Barbara Drummond, an RN herself, who wants to take her father back to Mexico where he had been doing missionary work.—Huggo
- Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott) is chief of medicine in a major teaching hospital. His wife has left him, he is impotent, and his children have disowned him. He is toying with the idea of suicide when patients begin dying, not from complications, but from the erroneous treatments the Hospital is giving them. People in the wrong beds are given wrong medicines, sent to operating theaters for incorrect surgery, and found in waiting rooms dead of natural causes. Barbara Drummond (Dame Diana Rigg) has come to take her comatose father back to the Sioux reservation, where he operates a clinic, and they each reach out to each other for emotional support, as a shadowy figure stalks the patients and staff of the hospital.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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