I just ran across this as one of patty dukes movies and i have been on a patty duke binge and certainly one of her best! From the get go, you quickly come to fill the shoes of a very hard working dedicated nurse who is very well liked and respected in a Massachusetts hospital. Indeed, it has not been an easy life and she is in her third marriage. However, things are looking up and she just received a raise.
Things get confusing and a doctor tells the staff that a patient hasnt long to live and his "told only" orders are to administer 15 mil. Morphine to the woman, to keep her comfortable. This is not permission to give additional medicine even though the lines of such understanding at times are not the clearest. At any rate, nurse Annie does give more morphine than the orders have read. However, the media calls it a mercy killing of course of which it certainly is not.
I must mention what a superb job Tom Conti as her lawyer does. He is so charismatic and yet so at ease with his communication. He is so expressive with his facial expressions also that I can easily see how that is an important part of his communication. He became a well known lawyer nation wide. I can see why if this portrayal is true to form.
Things get confusing and a doctor tells the staff that a patient hasnt long to live and his "told only" orders are to administer 15 mil. Morphine to the woman, to keep her comfortable. This is not permission to give additional medicine even though the lines of such understanding at times are not the clearest. At any rate, nurse Annie does give more morphine than the orders have read. However, the media calls it a mercy killing of course of which it certainly is not.
I must mention what a superb job Tom Conti as her lawyer does. He is so charismatic and yet so at ease with his communication. He is so expressive with his facial expressions also that I can easily see how that is an important part of his communication. He became a well known lawyer nation wide. I can see why if this portrayal is true to form.