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In the daily drama at one of the world's wildest hospitals, a jungle veterinarian, his zoologist girlfriend, and their team of dedicated staff and volunteers take on dangerous and exciting challenges as they care for a cast of iconic endangered animals. Some animals stay for a month, others for a day, and some, sadly, never return to the forest at all. But every animal deserves a fighting chance to be wild.
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Brain donors (1992 ; 79 min.): "A rich widow hires an ambulance-chasing lawyer and his two unable assistants to realize her late husband's dream of founding a ballet company"--Container.
Critical condition (1986 ; 97 min.): "A criminal fakes insanity to avoid prison and ends up in a psychiatric hospital. But the real craziness begins after he escapes during a blackout and disguises himself as a doctor. Will he bring order to the chaos or create medical...
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Tras un golpe de pelota endemoniado que lo deja inconsciente, Tom se despierta tumbado en una camilla, en el Hospital Lord Funt, donde un terrorífico portero y una enfermera espeluznante lo trasladan al ala infantil. Parece una pesadilla, pero lo que Tom no sabe es que ¡muy pronto vivirá la aventura más emocionante de su vida!
Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for...the Midnight...
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"There have been an increasing number of articles and books by medical professionals warning us of the hospital dangers, but very few by patients based on their personal experience. This I will guarantee; your awareness of my experience will drastically change your perception of our medical service. You will be less certain, less trusting, more perceptively critical, but safer. Hospitals kill 100,000 patients per year mostly through unintended medical...
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Sheri Fink's investigation into the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, a gripping portrayal of unfolding calamity, vital choices and the suspenseful quest for truth and justice. Physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of the patients, doctors, rescue workers, nurses, and family members who struggled mightily...
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"Pacjenci luksusowego ośrodka leczenia zaburzeń psychicznych skarżą się na przeszkadzające im w nocy hałasy. Są przekonani, że stary gmach, będący obecnie siedzibą kliniki „Pod Liliami”, nawiedzany jest przez duchy. Domagają się od jej właścicielki sprowadzenia na miejsce osoby zdolnej poradzić sobie z tym problemem. Chcąc zadowolić swych pensjonariuszy, dyrektor Aldona Gwież prosi o pomoc pewien zakon. Nie wie jednak, że...
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"When the Tuskegee Veteran's Hospital opened in 1923, many in the Veteran's Bureau believed that black physicians and nurses were not competent to staff the facility. Except for nurses' aides, orderlies, attendants and laborers, hospital personnel would be white. The history of the hospital reflects the struggle for racial equality in the United States"--
875) La historia del loco
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"Francis Petrel tenía poco más de veinte años cuando su familia lo recluyó en el psiquiátrico tras una conducta imprevisible que culminó en una crisis. Pero un reencuentro en los terrenos de la clausurada institución remueve algo profundo en la mente agitada de Francis: unos recuerdos sombríos, que él creía haber enterrado, sobre los truculentos hechos que condujeron al cierre del Western State Hospital, y el asesinato sin resolver de una...
877) To, co zostawiła
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Minęło dziesięć lat, odkąd matka Izzy Stone zastrzeliła śpiącego męża, pozbawiając swoją córkę ukochanego ojca. Przekonana o obłędzie matki Izzy nie może jej tego wybaczyć i wciąż odmawia odwiedzenia kobiety w więzieniu. Siedemnastolatka mieszka w rodzinie zastępczej, a w wolnych chwilach pomaga przybranym rodzicom w porządkowaniu zbiorów lokalnego muzeum, w którym pracują. Pewnego dnia w stercie porzuconych i zapomnianych...
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Mario Ruspoli was a photographer, writer, gastronomist, zoologist, jazz nut, student of prehistory, painting enthusiast, amateur entomologist, and an all-around adventurer, and all of these passions fed into the filmmaking activity of this documentarian. Metrograph presents new restorations of his short films and the first-ever US release of Florence Dauman's feature documentary.
Collected shorts by Mario Ruspoli: The whalers: a portrait of the last...
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Step inside a madhouse of horror and experience the chilling new incarnation of TV₂s most daringly provocative series. The sins of the past haunt the present at the notorious Briarcliff home for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude. Forbidden desire and terrifying evil lurk around every corner, from alien abduction to demonic possession to a skin-wearing psychopath known as 'Bloody Face.'
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