the hospital be a movie that be make ahead of it time . this film and produce by screenwriter paddy chayefsky and who give u the oscar winning film and network and deal 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 a the head physician and be drive to alcoholism and a death wish and a he try to recover from a divorce and throw his son out of the house and and bad of all and a medical facility where corruption and incompetence take precedence over caring and healing of the sick and injured . mr. scott make the movie his own and and viewer will be shock at what they observe at this medical establishment . you can feel the pain ( pun intend ) of what this hospital have do to him . the vivid image of this hospital incompetence be so vivid and dramatically powerful that you may find yourself laugh and be deeply disturb from scene to scene . if only the film have stay with that premise in a documentary style fashion a it start out and this picture would be brilliant . unfortunately and there be a sub plot of scott fall for the daughter of a senile patient . the patient have be murder people at the hospital . this be where credibility of the picture become strain . the romantic dialog scene add nothing to the picture and and the mental patient and posing a a doctor and i find to be totally unbelievable . a simple security call and record check should have prevent the senile patient from do the killing . it take almost the whole movie and before security people be bring into the film to get the patient out of the hospital . i could not see one person do that much damage and even as corrupt a this hospital be . furthermore and george c scott character be overwork ( another pun intend ) because the script have too many thing happen at once . for example and within a period of 20 minute and you could have as many a 20 different doctor accuse and deny what they should have do or do not do . with the nurse and aid and it the same story . someone chart be read wrong and someone be give the wrong medication and die and the doctor operate on the wrong patient and than another doctor do the same thing and blame a third nurse who be not on call because the second nurse who be suppose to be admit the patient be on her coffee break . there be also a lot of subtle and dark humor with the same message of incompetence and corruption be feed to the viewer . this repetition of medical ineptness be unforgettable . however and the murder subplot be a distraction more than a help to this movie . when the focus of this film be on the incompetence of the staff and scott reaction to this and you be glue to the screen . but the conversation between scott and the mad patient daughter force the film into a mystery type who do it . scenario that seriously hurt the quality of the movie . when the loony patient be reveal how he do the killing and i wonder the following represent why do the producer need the find the killer mad patient sub plot . i think the only point of scott character have a relationship with the senile patient daughter and be to give him anybody with whom to communicate . the hospital should have maintain it scathing indictment of the medical profession by remove the love interest and mad patient scene . it should have focus on the incompetent b. s within it wall more frequently . in an era where this movie could have be phenomenal and the sub plot story make the film very good instead of the great masterpiece it could have be .