Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considering all the tethering going on--husband to wife and self-denial, doctor to patient and duty, etc.--the difficulties of putting into performance such interlacing and interlocking balances and relationships are understandable. Considering the importance of some such connections existing before fragmentation occurs, however, the Kirkland performances become tantalizing in their inevtiably new spin on Miller's Scenario...
...Often ebullient, even jocular, Aziz answered questions with both patient frankness and that skill of diverting discussion to favorable ground that is essential for diplomats who represent dictators...
...harm to women. As you noted, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, doctors who deal daily with obstetric complications, are against the ban. And Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health is vehemently opposed to the ban on the procedure and to any interference in the integrity of the patient-doctor relationship and physicians' commitment to the safe practice of medicine. We owe it to our patients to provide the best possible care based on medical and scientific facts, rather than contentious emotional and political debates. SEYMOUR L. ROMNEY, M.D. Chair, Board of Directors Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health...
...groggy James Spader) a young gun working in an ultra high-tech intensive care unit who's looking to make it big. That is, he's looking to get rich and sleep with as many women as possible on the way up. Ernst spends his days tending to patients whose state of health runs the gamut from vegetative to permanently comatose-a foreshadowing of the film's extremely limited scope. His one patient who is actually conscious is a terminally ill dialysis case (played with stunning grace by Jeffery Wright) praying for death...
...bright spot amidst all of this failed moralistic posturing is a beautifully executed subplot involving the terminally ill patient (Wright) and the nurse (Mirren) who is eventually moved to help him end his life. A strong short film on euthanasia could have been made out of this storyline, but it only goes to waste here...