Playbill
September, 1973
In the film version of M*A*S*H, wrecked and overworked Army doctors traded one-liners over some poor bastard's intestines, and in The Hospital, George C. Scott seethed with rage while patients died of neglect in his admitting room. But those were just films, right? Well, we weren't sure how far medical truth strayed from fiction, so we assigned writer Roger Rapoport to spend a month finding out. He visited a dozen or so hospitals and talked to more than 100 people—doctors, nurses, administrators...
