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==Plot== The film follows hospital staff and a variety patients in an episodic manner. The film is highly [[Documentary_film#Observational|observational]], using no [[voice-over]] narration or interviews. No names are 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 group|ethnic backgrounds]] and [[social class|social classes]], but most are [[poverty|poor]] and [[social exclusion|marginalized]]. Doctors, nurses, police officers, and social workers attempt to aid patients with medical care and [[Well-being|social welfare]]. The staff's actions are often compassionate but limited by an overwhelmed public system. Among the patients are man who fears he has cancer, a [[child neglect|neglected toddler]] who fell out a window, an art student who ingested an unknown drug and is suffering a [[bad trip]], a [[gay]], [[transsexual]] teenager trying to obtain welfare, and an elderly women who has a [[pulmonary embolism]] and is in [[medical state|critical condition]]. A group of patients attend a [[Mass in the Catholic Church|Catholic mass]] as the closing sequence.
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