Word: medicancy
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...best hope for that is Mary Burke (Patricia Arquette), daughter of a heart-attack victim Frank has brought into the hospital, where the man lingers between life and death and where Mary hangs out, awaiting his fate. In her repressed way, she's as strung out as the medic, and perhaps not good news for him. But she's the only hopeful news in sight, and their tentative flirtation keeps getting interrupted--by cardiac arrests in nightclubs, by the allegedly virgin birth of twins, by the running violence of an often half-naked street person (well played by the singer...
...well-timed flashbacks, we meet Hata as young Lieut. Kurohata, an imperial Japanese army medic whose duties include gynecological examinations of the garrison's Korean comfort women. It's an odious job for a man sensitive enough to fall in love with one of these World War II sex slaves...
...idea was to spice the old format with smart comers--Claire Danes (Romeo + Juliet), Omar Epps (Higher Learning) and Giovanni Ribisi (the medic in Saving Private Ryan)--and a screw-you modernity. Instead, director and co-writer Scott Silver (Johns) gives us a surly anti-toon; it's the Three Sociopathic Stooges with lots of Method mewling. By the time Ribisi has his big shouting scene with Epps ("Dude, your cover's been blown. Your cover's been blown. You cover has been blown!"), you realize these kids just aren't having any fun playing cops. But hang around...
Brokaw, 58, begins his story close to home, honoring his father Anthony ("Red") Brokaw, who was posted to an Army ordnance depot in Igloo, S.D. Moving farther afield, he profiles Bob Bush, a Washington State businessman who won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his service as a Navy medic on Okinawa. Bush's modesty is typical of many ordinary men who selflessly threw themselves into the most dangerous places...
...troops without the "overpowering evidence" such explosive allegations require. The Pentagon probe found that Robert Van Buskirk, a Tailwind platoon leader and a prime source for the original story, never mentioned sarin or defectors in an after-action briefing he gave. Retired Captain Michael Rose, the Tailwind medic, told Pentagon investigators that he had no doubt the fumes he inhaled were tear gas, just like the whiffs he got in basic training. "It's like skunk," he said. "Once you smell it, you never forget." And, the Pentagon said, two ex-service members that the original report said had scouted...