"She was young and lovely and gay. Nobody could understand why she had dedicated herself to the hard, demanding, difficult career of a doctor. The Chief of Staff was blunt. 'Why don't you give up medicine and get married?'he asked. 'You ought to be having babies, not delivering them!' This is the story of Amanda Paull, who, as a woman doctor, tried to force herself into the male world of medicine. It is the story of the two men in her life, and it is the story of a woman's fight to save the lives of suffering humans and win her place in the busy wards of a huge, crowded city hospital."