'GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!'

Care of the dying has improved somewhat since this film was made but even when my sister was dying my family had a confrontation with at least one of the nurses on the cancer floor. However, it did NOT involve yelling, which would have been distressing to other patients!

That much having been said, I don't care for the portrayals of the nurses in this particular film. On the cancer floors I've visited, the nurses are usually rotated after a few months, because it's emotionally stressful to know you're going to lose most of your patients, whom you may have come to know well due to their long stays.

MOST of the nurses I've met in the last 15 years who were doing this kind of care have been pretty kind and considerate, and the dying people I knew got enough pain meds to have a fair degree of comfort.

The reason our nurse had to be dressed down was because she was making comments on the hopelessness of my sister's condition which were making the poor kid even more depressed than she already was, as well as the rest of us. It was obviously time for her to be moved off the cancer floor.

"Shake me up, Judy!"

and I would add to that list, the performance of Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice

When she's saying goodbye and the youngest boy starts crying whilst his elder brother is trying to detach and not get upset but is terribly upset - that scene is heart breaking.

I'm a fountain of blood
In the shape of a girl

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The shot scene turns me into a blubbering idiot as does the scene where she talks to the boys. Also, I love the way Winger matter of fact's it with Jeff Daniels Flap, asking if he "REALLY" wants the kids.