Hektoen International

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Tag: Dr. Herbert Bock

  • Movie review: The Hospital, “the wounded madhouse of our times”

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “Where do you train your nurses, Mrs. Christie, Dachau?”—Dr. Herbert Bock, The Hospital The Hospital (1971) is a devastating satire about American medicine in the second half of the twentieth century. We see the functioning of an inner-city teaching hospital through the eyes of Dr. Herbert Bock (played by George C. Scott),…