Hospital - An Unhealthy Business
1997 · 57m · Documentary
St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, faces the challenge of treating patients with limited finance. Administrators, doctors and nurses plan how to cut costs by reducing the number of operations, closing wards and justifying every expenditure.
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