Agency - English program:.Atlantic Centre. Agency:.Produced by Dark Flowers Productions Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with CBC Newsworld.

Writer, Rosemary House ; director, Rosemary House ; producer, Mary Sexton, Kent Martin ; director of photography, Nigel Markham ; editor, Lyly Fortin ; sound editor, Paul Steffler ; sound recordist, Harvey Hyslop ; composer, Duane Andrews ; executive producer, Kent Martin.

Recorded 2004.

Most of us are born in hospitals, and most of us will die there too. But hospitals remain sprawling, mysterious places - sources of dread and fear that remind us of our own mortality. While media reports concentrate on miracles and highly trained specialists. Hospital City shifts the focus away from high-profile doctors and introduces us to people no less essential - the workers, without whom no hospital could function. Shot at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland, this documentary reveals the workings of a contemporary health-care facility. Accompanied by hospital staff, we travel through miles of corridors, labs, pharmacies, supply rooms, operating theatres, and patient rooms - from the maternity ward to the morgue. As debate in Canada rages over funding cuts and a health-care system said to be in crisis, Hospital City is a moving, human portrait of the people whom the debates most closely touch.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Honorable Mention - Category: Physical Health & Medicine, 2004

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).