if you like paddy chayevsky network you will probably like this black comedy a well and a it another brilliant chayevsky script and a wonderful satire on big city hospital and a perfect vehicle for geo . c. scott . he play a burn out chief of medicine on the most chaotic day he or his hospital have ever see . his personal crisis be come to a head and his hospital fall down around him and a local resident demonstrate against the hospital and patient and doctor be die at an alarm rate and thanks to a biblically inspire and murderous saboteur . the latter and who theatrically declare himself the fool for christ and parakleet of kaborka and wrath of the lamb and and angel of the bottomless pit and bop doctor on the head and administers lethal injection and swap patient identity and cause treatment and operation to be perform on the wrong person . this film make you uncomfortable and a deadly mistake like these do happen ( hopefully not so many and not so often and not in one place ) and at the same time make you laugh at the priceless character portrait . one be richard dysart ( l. a. law ) a dr. wellbeck and a sort of celebrity surgeon who spend far more time worry about his investment and publicly trade stock than about his patient and who suffer lethally from his vast indifference and neglect . there diana rigg a free spirit and hippie ish barbara drummond and who seduce the beleaguered chief of medicine ( scott ) and try to get him to run away with her . then there the deluded murderer and who happen to be barbara father and who function well enough back at the indian reservation where he live with his daughter and even run a clinic and but who push to madness merely by be place back in civilization . the strong portrait by far be scott dr. bock and who bar his soul a former boy genius and fail father and husband and brilliant doctor and responsible administrator and who constantly dream of suicide but must bear up under the demand of his job . scott be exceptional in this demanding role . until the final scene one doesn not know if bock will leave the hospital behind for barbara indian reservation and a quieter and simpler life and whether her murderous father will be catch or whether the protesting and rioting local will take over and bring the hospital to it knee . watch the craze killer at work and one suspect chayevsky be tell u our lunatic society make him do these thing and a be tell he a different person away from city and people . a my own father be the chief administrator of a number of large hospital over the year and i have some idea of the demand of his job and the huge responsibility he shoulder . this story make that responsibility the linchpin on which scott crisis turn . this be both a funny and scary film and with the actor up to the considerable demand of chayevsky script . it also a film i get more out of each time i watch it .