Corrected entry: Tom Hanks refers to an Intensive Care Unit, and although a few physicians had already discovered the practice of separating the sickest patients into a separate ward in the 1930's, the term Intensive Care Unit was not yet in use.
dizzyd
24th Apr 2005
Correction: As it was told via flashback, maybe the old man either got the word wrong in his memory or put it in '90's terms?
dizzyd