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Scene Analysis of John Q
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John Q. Archibald and his wife have found out that their son has a heart condition. This condition is so severe that he will not survive without heart transplant surgery. John believes that he has insurance to cover this surgery but finds out this is not the case. He begins a campaign to get his insurance to cover the cost of the surgery as well as fund raising to help with the medical expenses for his son’s hospitalization and surgery. The hospital refuses to put Mike Archibald on the list for a heart because they do not have the money to cover this surgery. John Q. and his wife become desperate as their son’s health worsens. In a desperate attempt to make something happen, John Q. takes his son’s heart surgeon, some medical staff, and some patients hostage in the Emergency Room of the hospital that is about to discharge his son. While holding these hostages, the Administrator of the hospital decides that they will put the child on the list and that the hospital will absorb the cost. It becomes apparent to John Q that a heart is not going to be available to his son soon enough. His son is dying. He convinces the heart surgeon to use his heart to put into his son after he kills himself. John Q goes to speak with his son about his future and to give him fatherly advice that he will not be there to give. He says goodby to his son in a very emotional scene. Meanwhile, a fax is received by the nurse who has taken care of Mike telling them that a heart that matches is available. The nurse runs out of the hospital to alert the Administrator. Meanwhile, the heart surgeon and other hospital staff have gathered in a room where John Q is to kill himself so that they can harvest his heart.
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