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The man’s wife had gone to the hospital in agony, suffering from unspecified neurological issues, but she had received only disdain and disregard from medical personnel. As a result, murder was on the mind of Paddy Chayefsky. “Writer Herb Gardner and Chayefsky were walking along a New York street one evening when Paddy turned to him and asked if he knew of a good way to kill off nurses,” author Shaun Considine wrote in Mad as Hell, his 1994 biography of the screenwriter.
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