"So You Want to Be a Doctor?" tells of some of the more humorous, tragic, and poignant cases Dr. Harold Fletcher encountered during his many years as a physician. He tells hopeful medical students, "If you can:

• Give the same medical attention to a woman off the street that you would a Major Hollywood star.
• Extricate Vaseline jar from a drunk lady's vagina.
• Endure the horror of hundreds of bodies and body parts scattered over a field after an air accident or an enormous explosion.
• React professionally even though you are fearful that the small boy, dressed as your young...