Final Diagnosis Hailey's Final Diagnosis though medical fiction, is more of an emotional take on life of doctors in a corporate set up.It is hard hitting at times with the stories of people who take decisions which could mean life or death to others ,but mostly it's a story of realization. Medicine needs it's practitioner to stay up to date. Just because you have those two letters in front of your name doesn't provide you immunity from the crime of losing touch with newer research. Hailey focuses on an aging stubborn pathologist's struggle to keep hold of his position which seems to have come under threat beacuse of his arrogance or may be lack of interest in knowing what's new in pathology. 1970