Coma

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Something is awry at Boston General Hospital. Dr. Wheeler's (Genevieve Bujold) friend Nancy goes in for a routine procedure, but never comes out of the anesthesia and slips into a coma. Wheeler learns that a tissue sample from the young woman went to the lab, then soon finds out that a high number of patients have become comatose recently. She digs a little deeper and finds a conspiracy mired in hospital politics, running afoul of the head of anesthesia, Dr. George (Rip Torn) and the head of surgery, Dr. Harris (Richard Widmark). Nobody believes the young MD, not even her boyfriend Dr. Bellows (Douglas), but she soon uncovers a black-market trade in body parts, conducted offsite at the Jefferson Institute, a state-of-the-art coma-care facility. Director Michael Crichton is an MD himself, and the film has a seamless, almost mechanical structure and plotline (taken from the Robin Cook novel). Jerry Renshaw 1978 113 minutes Available in VHS and DVD

The Hospital

Nefllix Blurb: George C. Scott stars in this black comedy as Herbert Bock, a suicidal doctor who struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital. Herbert's life is on a downward spiral, but just as he contemplates killing himself, patients at the hospital begin dying -- apparently from erroneous treatments they're being mysteriously ministered. Diana Rigg co-stars in this Academy Award winner for Best Screen Play 1971 103 minutes

This is a classic, timely today, too.

NY Times Review December 15, 1971