Lonely Lucy is jealous of the time her father, a heart surgeon, spends away from home, but when he brings a Masai girl to America for surgery, both girls find a cure for their particular type of heartsickness.
Brief biographies of five women doctors who, despite many difficulties, made singular contributions to the field of medicine and to society in general.
Katie brings her favorite toy along on a visit to the doctor and together they learn about the tools and methods the doctor uses to diagnose his patients.
When Abby Dolan begins a new job as an emergency room physician in a small California town she uncovers a series of unexplained deaths which leads her into a dangerous game of suspicion, accidents, and threats.
A fictionalized biography stressing the turbulent boyhood of the man who "hating" medicine in his youth went on to become a renowned scientist winning the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1906.