15 Sep 2004
Hospital City
As debate in Canada and the world rages over health care, Hospital City offers a moving, human portrait of the people whom the issues touch most closely.
Defining Hope
We aren't dying the way we used to. We have ventilators, dialysis machines, ICUs-technologies that can "fix" us and keep our bodies alive-which have radically changed how we make medical decisions. In our death-denying culture, no matter how sick we get, there is always "hope." Defining Hope tells the story of patients dealing with life-threatening illness as they move between ICUs, operating rooms, hospice care and home. Diane is a nurse caring for end-stage cancer patients when she is diagnosed with ovarian cancer herself. 23-year-old Alena undergoes a risky brain surgery that destroys her short-term memory. 95-year-old Berthold lives with his elderly wife who struggles to honor his wish of dying peacefully at home. Defining Hope follows these patients and others- and the nurses that guide them along the way- as they face death, embrace hope, and ultimately redefine what makes life worth living.
Top Billed Cast
Rudolph Bilotti Sr. Self
Berthold Cohen Self
Charlotte Cohen Self
Carmen Hernandez Self
Deborah LaFond Self - Nurse
JoAnn Nayer-Grutza Self - Nurse
Gilbert Oakley Self - Nurse
Diane Ryan Self - Nurse
Barbara Stephenson Self
Alena Sydnor Self
Carole Bailey Self
Nina Marrero Self
Raoul Marrero Self
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