The story follows Dr. Herbert Bock (Scott), the brilliant but disillusioned and suicidal Chief of Medicine at a chaotic Manhattan teaching hospital. Bock is dealing with a monumental mid-life crisis, impotence, and an estranged family, all while the hospital around him collapses into madness.
A must see for anyone who's spent any time in one! Certainly the highlight of this film is it's cast. Diana Rigg, George C. Scott, The Hospital(1971)
: Critics widely praise Scott’s performance as "magnetic" and "towering". His world-weary portrayal of a man roaring against his own decline is considered one of his finest cinematic hours. The story follows Dr
: The script highlights the friction between Bock’s "traditional" system and the subversive, "flower child" counterculture of the 1970s. and an estranged family