Medically inaccurate movie

The movie was great until Maggie ended up in the hospital. There were so many glaring things wrong with the last third of the movie, it ruined my experience.

The most obvious error was when she was talking on the ventilator. But there are other grievances. For instance, they attach the ventilator straight to her trach tube. That is a big no-no. Especially for invasive long-term mechanical ventilation. She would need some humidity, at least an HME. Even then, she says (ironically) that she has a C1, C2 complete (paralysis), an injury which impairs or ceases one's ability to speak.

Then there were other things. For instance, the lack of security in the hospital, especially for the CRITICAL CARE patients like Maggie, which are usually locked up. Plus, hospital patient rooms are usually locked up at night, people cannot waltz in and out as they please.

Also the epinephrine (it is never explained where Frankie got it from) amount that was injected into Maggie was wayyyyyyy too much. Yes, I know that he was trying to kill her, but the amount he gave her would have given her violent, severe seizures for several minutes before a possible cardiac arrest. Plus, the nurses would have came immediately since she was crashing. The alarm that he "silenced" only silences the audible alarms on the ventilator, not the nurse call alarm.

Hospitals don't fool around with patient safety, Eastwood just made a weak ending because he thought the audience wouldn't know any better.

Don't they hire people to check out these things? It was all very unrealistic, yet somehow this film won 4 academy awards, including best picture.