Nurse Blade's First Week

Because June was the daughter of a famous surgeon who frequently discussed his work and problems with her, she grew up to know more than the average young girl about hospital life. Thus equipped, she entered her nursing career confidently, thinking she knew, if not all, at least most of the answers.

How wrong she was, she was quickly to find out.

It was not easy to decide how to deal with forbidden visitors...how to answer a patient's questions without straying too far from the truth...how to make a patient believe he would walk again even though his surgeon wasn't very sure...what to say when a patient asked for a friend who was dead...how not to confuse sympathy and pity with love...

All these, and many more, are the problems June has to cope with in this fascinating story of hospital life.