This installment is more heartwarming than dramatic. It's also a boost for community subsidized hospitals where little Patty is treated and housed for years, courtesy community taxpayers. Hard to believe any mother would force lye down the throat of a baby, but the 30-minutes is based on fact, while that first look at the ravaged mouth area looks both real and ghastly. Most of the narrative follows Patty's various corrective surgeries and her friendships with both the staff and other patients as time passes. I'm glad someone saw fit to make nurse Morgan (Wood) a cranky nemesis to Patty, that way we get a more rounded human view. Anyway, the cross-racial (Patty is African-American) aspect is unusual for the time and well-handled. It's also a chance for actor Adam Williams (Dr. Pierson) to play a good guy for a change. All in all, it's a heartwarming story that manages not to get sticky.
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Hello Muddah! Hello Faddah!
kapelusznik1827 March 2016
Warning: Spoilers
****SPOILERS**** The excellent health care shown in this "Medic" episode is said to be a true story that has abandoned 6 month old Patty Dunbar,Joann Banks, treated for a number of serious oiliness starting with her digestive system damaged by her mother shoving lye down her throat that almost killed her. Put under the tender care of the both doctors nurses as well as patients at the local general hospital Patty slowly recovered from a number of serious operations that took over 6 years to bring her back to health.
It was Patty's grandma Jonson, Madame Sultewan, who at first cared for her after her drug addicted daughter dropped her into a dumpster and ran off with her drug dealing boyfriend to the nearest crack, or whatever they called them back then in the mid 1950's, house. Despite Patty or grandma not having any kind of heath insurance or Obamacare, that didn't exist back then, she got the very best treatment possible at state as well as government expense. It shown that back then in the not so in-lightened as well as non political correct 1950's a poor and seriously ill black girl was given the best care available that would end up bankrupting with medical bills the most well off of us today.
Worth watching if you can find it "Medic" episode that showed how the US medical system worked before politics as well as big bucks, in the form of insurance & pharmaceutical companies, took it over. There's also a sad side story, besides that of little Patty, of Patty's friend Linda, Sharon Lynn, a patient at the hospital who passed away from kidney failure soon after she got to know her. And there's also a happy ending with Patty being adopted by a black couple to the sad regret of those dedicated and kindly doctors nurses and patients including the cancer stricken Miss Basserman, Connie Van, who cared for and looked after her for the last six years.
It was Patty's grandma Jonson, Madame Sultewan, who at first cared for her after her drug addicted daughter dropped her into a dumpster and ran off with her drug dealing boyfriend to the nearest crack, or whatever they called them back then in the mid 1950's, house. Despite Patty or grandma not having any kind of heath insurance or Obamacare, that didn't exist back then, she got the very best treatment possible at state as well as government expense. It shown that back then in the not so in-lightened as well as non political correct 1950's a poor and seriously ill black girl was given the best care available that would end up bankrupting with medical bills the most well off of us today.
Worth watching if you can find it "Medic" episode that showed how the US medical system worked before politics as well as big bucks, in the form of insurance & pharmaceutical companies, took it over. There's also a sad side story, besides that of little Patty, of Patty's friend Linda, Sharon Lynn, a patient at the hospital who passed away from kidney failure soon after she got to know her. And there's also a happy ending with Patty being adopted by a black couple to the sad regret of those dedicated and kindly doctors nurses and patients including the cancer stricken Miss Basserman, Connie Van, who cared for and looked after her for the last six years.
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