The Doctor on Elm Street — Kay Hamilton

Fay Torrey had fled to the quiet New England hills to find peace, and to erase from her memory the picture of Dr. Val Gebhart's scornful rejection of her love, for despite her recently acquired M.D. and her brilliant record as an interne at Brooke Memorial, she discovered that she was still a woman and still vulnerable.

She hadn't intended to settle down in Branfield to become, in the face of obvious hostility, its only woman doctor, but when handsome, bitter and discouraged Dr. Brian Campbell offered to sell his practice to her -- vowing that he was through with medicine forever -- she decided to stay on and prove to herself and to Branfield that a woman could be just as successful as a man. Perhaps her decision was influenced in part by her fondness for Brian and by her conviction that with the right kind of encouragement, his confidence in himself and in his profession could be restored.

Fay ultimately succeeded in changing Brian's views about medicine, but not until she had been compelled to revise some of her own ideas about love.