How long could young Dr. Bob hide the terrible truth before Nurse Kane was forced to turn to another man?

Everybody thought Wanda Miles was too rich, too beautiful to be a good nurse. But she was. And her know-how included a plan to lure Dr. John Stamers into her arms.

When the brilliant young doctor turned his sights on Nurse Shirley Kate, the explosion was heard in every corner of Carrington Hospital…

How long could young Dr. Bob hide the terrible truth before Nurse Kane was forced to turn to another man?

Everybody thought Wanda Miles was too rich, too beautiful to be a good nurse. But she was. And her know-how included a plan to lure Dr. John Stamers into her arms.

When the brilliant young doctor turned his sights on Nurse Shirley Kate, the explosion was heard in every corner of Carrington Hospital…

Quite suddenly Nurse Doralee Dahlquist became a nervous shrew. Needing a change of pace from her high-pressure work in the Intensive Care Unit of a big hospital, she gook a job at the medical clinic in magnificent Yosemite National Park. Her sense of well-being quickly returned as she nursed others in the peaceful valley. Then a new siege of unrest attacked Doralee when she lost her heart to Angus McGonigal, a photography genius. For while Angus seemed to return Doralee’s love, Nurse Jan Stagnetto claimed she was going to marry the handsome photographer. And when Jan put on the charm and glamour, no mere man could resist her!

Nurse Iva gave too much, too rapidly, to her work and found herself confronted with a choice between her career and the man who loved her.

The staff of City Core Hospital was faced daily with the problem of saving the lives of would-be suicides and of keeping these patients from trying again and again. Nurse Iva Loring had an inner drive that had taken her through school and training at top speed. She gave too much, too rapidly, to her work and was on the verge of a nervous collapse when she took time off to regain her perspective on life.

Now she was easing herself back into work as a stand-by nurse. Her special empathy for the depressed and discouraged made her an ideal nurse for the suicide detail. But there was a question of whether or not she was too understanding and too involved to be effective.

Iva, herself, had to examine her values and choose between the career to which she was dedicated and marriage to the devoted young hospital pharmacist who had stood by her without making any demands on her emotions. Could Iva make that choice?

Janice Hunt, head nurse of the recovery-room unit at Wentworth Hospital, heard quick footsteps coming down the corridor and glanced up from her desk to see the stout figure of Amanda Dilby hurrying toward her. Janice could tell by the troubled look on the older nurse’s face that there was a crisis of some sort.

Resting a plump hand on the desk, Amanda said, “Mr. Forest has suddenly started to hemorrhage!”

Janice stood up at once. “That’s Dr. Dodge’s patient, isn’t it?”

The older woman nodded. “Yes. The doctor operated on him this morning. He checked on him earlier this afternoon, and the patient was fine then.”

“He’ll probably need a transfusion,” Janice said, her blue eyes wide with concern.

Amanda agreed. “Yes. He’s lost a lot of blood. I’ve called the intern, and he’s in there now trying to cope with it all.”

Relief showed on the attractive face of the young head nurse. “Dr. Cairns?” she asked.

“Yes,” Amanda said.

“That’s good. He’s the most experienced.”

“He happened to be on his rounds,” the older nurse said.

Janice said, “I’d better go see what’s happening.”

“I think you’d better.”

The two nurses strode quickly along the corridor to the recovery room, with its complicated equipment. Eleven patients were recovering from various types of surgery. Janice saw that young Dr. Cairns, assisted by one of the room’s several nurses, had already started a transfusion on the critically ill patient.

Janice crossed to the young intern’s side. “How is it going?”

Dr. Cairns, slender with a rakish brown mustache, gave her a reassuring smile. “Everything under control now. But it’s lucky I was here. He lost an incredible amount of blood in a short time.”