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Hospital is an 84-minute 1970 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman, which explores the daily activities of the people at Metropolitan Hospital Center, a large-city hospital in New York City, with emphasis on its emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The film won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in News Documentary Programming - Individuals and Outstanding Achievement in News Documentary Programming - Programs. It also won a Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award. In 1994, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Synopsis The film follows hospital staff and a variety patients in an episodic manner. The film is highly observational, using no voice-over narration or interviews. Names are not formally given, and the hospital is only mentioned once as "Metropolitan" by a doctor on a phone call. The patients come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and social classes, but most are poor and marginalized. Doctors, nurses, police officers, and social workers attempt to aid patients with medical care and social welfare. The staff's actions are often compassionate but limited by an overwhelmed public system. Among the patients are a man who fears he has cancer, a neglected toddler who fell out a window, an art student who ingested an unknown drug and is suffering a bad trip, a queer teenager trying to obtain welfare, and an elderly woman who has a pulmonary embolism and is in critical condition. A group of patients attending Catholic mass serves as the closing sequence. See also List of American films of 1970

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“Song brings us health, and blossoms will heal wounds. Therefore, I say, happy are those who understand sound and color.”
— Agni Yoga, Leaves of Morya’s Garden: Book Two: Illumination, 108. (1925)
“Healthy does not mean "healthful." Healthy is a condition, healthful is a property. Vegetables aren't healthy, they're dead. No food is healthy. Unless you have an eggplant that's doing push-ups. Push-ups are healthful.”
— George Carlin, Brain Droppings (1998), p. 120
“You take care of your personal health because you want to live a long time, and you want to be happy. You want to be healthy. But we can't be happy or healthy if we don't take care of our life support system, the planet.”
— Sylvia Earle Interview with NPR (25 June 2021)
“There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), XI
“Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.”
— Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 387.
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
— World Health Organization, Constitution of World Health Organization

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Notable quotes

“Song brings us health, and blossoms will heal wounds. Therefore, I say, happy are those who understand sound and color.”
— Agni Yoga, Leaves of Morya’s Garden: Book Two: Illumination, 108. (1925)
“Healthy does not mean "healthful." Healthy is a condition, healthful is a property. Vegetables aren't healthy, they're dead. No food is healthy. Unless you have an eggplant that's doing push-ups. Push-ups are healthful.”
— George Carlin, Brain Droppings (1998), p. 120
“You take care of your personal health because you want to live a long time, and you want to be happy. You want to be healthy. But we can't be happy or healthy if we don't take care of our life support system, the planet.”
— Sylvia Earle Interview with NPR (25 June 2021)
“There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), XI
“Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.”
— Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 387.
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
— World Health Organization, Constitution of World Health Organization

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