Doctors are Different — Dorothy Pierce Walker

Marsha Lee's engagement to Tony came as a surprise to no one, for she has known the grandson and heir of aristocratic old Mrs. Fararr since childhood. But Tony is more interested in sailing and pleasures than in Marsha's work in a New York hospital as research assistant to capable, young Doctor Keith Avery.

Marsha had a mistaken idea that doctors were different from ordinary men. She seemed to think they were born immune to emotion. She forgot that doctors were grown men before they studied medicine and were therefore fully subject to the common sympathies, the passions, and the failings of man as a man. Doctors learned to control their feelings for the good of their profession but the well-spring was still there in every one of them. It only had to be tapped at the right moment and in the right place.

Marsha was to find out for herself, but only after much doubt and heartbreak, that doctors, after all, are not different.