Film Medical Theme: Coma

The Hospital

Language : English

Year : 1971

Medical Theme : Coma/Hospital

Actors : George C.Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes

Storyline : Herbert Bock is chief of medicine in a major teaching hospital. His wife has left him and his children have disowned him. When he is thinking of suicide, his patients start dying due to wrong treatments given at the hospital. Barbara comes to take her comatose father when both meet and find mutual emotional support. At the same time a murderer stalks the Hospital.

Awakenings

Language : English

Year : 1990

Medical Theme : Coma / Discovery of new Drug

Actors : Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard

Storyline : It's a story of a new doctor's distress at seeing a ward full of comatose patients and his initiative to use his latest discovery of a chemical drug on one of the patients. A comatose teenage patient awakes as an adult. The story also deals with the reactions of the patients' relatives.