Television Nurse — Jane L. Sears

Just before Doctor Duncan Manley left for Europe he had shared a dream with Nurse Joan Shipley, when he returned he would set up a practice somewhere far from the phony glamour and the phonier symptoms of the Hollywood Hypochondriac Set. His eyes had told Joan that she was included in this dream.

Now Duncan was back, but not where he belonged; in an operating room, with Joan by his side, incredible but true, Duncan had turned television actor in a series called THE AMERICAN DOCTOR.

Why? Surely the owner of Sunset Hospital, who was also the series' chief backer, could not have compelled him to do it.

Joan's conscription as technical adviser was another story. She couldn't risk dismissal from the hospital with the word UNCOOPERATIVE scribbled across her record.

But Duncan was a free agent. Or was he? What had happened in Europe to change him so completely, and to destroy Joan's most cherished hopes?