![]() ![]() Then there's a surprise call from a social worker, responding to a charge of child abuse. Meanwhile, however, Jason doesn't improve. Coffee is followed by lunch, and Rosie thinks she's falling in love. Linder is very caring, and asks Rosie to have coffee with him so that he can go over Jason's treatment in detail. ![]() Greg Linder, a specialist in childhood asthma. When Jason, her two-year-old son, starts having asthma-like attacks, Rosie rushes him to the ER, where the attending physician suggests she consult Dr. She doesn't do so here, though, until it's almost too late. ![]() Rosie, who dropped out of her pre-med studies to marry Quinn (thus bitterly disappointing her father), learned enough medicine so that she can sometimes ask the right question. Rosie Sloan, a doctor's daughter, and her estranged husband Quinn, a policeman, never come into full focus as they trade clich‚s, emote, and gradually begin to understand what is going on. Auerbach (Sleep, Baby, Sleep, 1994, etc.) turns a current tabloid and talk-show preoccupation into a slow-starting but ultimately gripping tale of a mother who, accused of child abuse, is forced to confront not only the judicial but the medical system as well. ![]()
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