for those unfamiliar with paddy chayefsky and this be a very good introduction . while chayefsky deal with the reality behind the myth of many thing include medicine and this work be surprisingly prophetic of the way medicine be go today and two decade after the movie be make and over a decade after his death . beyond that and some insight into chayefsky view of life in general be lipped into the movie as well . the 20th century may well turn out to be the first and last century of the united state in the history of the world . if it turn out that the contribution to the art by the united state be in the dimension of the amovie and this be a prime example of that art .