Flying high in hospital

Press, 17 February 1983, Page 18

Flying high in hospital

As a crazy comedy. "Young Doctors in Love." which starts at the Cinerama tomorrow, does for medicine what "Flying High” did for air travel - it will make you wonder if it is safe to go to a hospital ever again.

The hallway of City Hospital looks ordinary enough, until you see that the walls are painted with odd combinations of lollipop colours, and there are goldfish in the bottles.

There is no question that love is in the air: doctors with doctors, nurses with doctors, patients with nurses

and so on. The complications of these romantic trysts make daytime television soap operas look like child's play.

But a hospital where you see no blood, and the only real injury is a broken heart is what you find in "Young Doctors in Love." The film finds its humour in the sly parodying of hos-pital-oriented movies and television shows, from Ben Casey. Dr Kildare, right up to today's daytime soapy. ■ General Hospital."

Michael McKean is a clean-cut. unfeeling and ambitious doctor who wants to

be the world's best surgeon. Sean Young is his love interest.

Taylor Negron moonlights as a rhumba teacher to earn extra cash and seduces the hospital's head nurse in search of a steady supply of “uppers." One resident falls for a pregnant hooker on rollerskates. while another is strongly attracted to the daughter of a stroke patient — except that the patient is really a member of the mafia, and his daughter is really his son dressed in drag.