Debutante Nurse
As Dana Gordon put on her new mink coat, she remembered the quizzical eyes of the young intern. To him she was nothing but an ornament — beautiful but useless. At that moment she made her decision to show him that she had the courage and will to win a place in his hard, dedicated world of medicine — even if it meant giving up her soft, glittering social world.
Dedication Jones
Staff Nurse Didi Jones was torn between enthusiasm for her interesting new job and the feeling that she ought to be “settling down” as her fiance wanted. But would there have been any problem, if she had really cared about him?
Dental Nurse at Denley’s
Everyone at Denley’s was wondering what the new dental surgeon would be like. But when Alison Blake learned that his name was Christopher Stevenson, she knew only too well—and her heart sank…
Difficult Patient, The
Lonny Morton enjoyed her work at the Craig Clinic. She liked giving any assistance she could to Mrs. Craig, a fine physical therapist. And she felt great pleasure as she watched Mrs. Craig help their patients regain the use of their injured bodies.
As someone who worked in a healing profession, Lonny knew she should not get too emotionally involved with any of the patients. But she could not help being attracted for Rich Lang, the mysterious young man who seemed reluctant to give up his crutch. If only she knew the full truth about him! Was he just pretending to be sick? Was Rich a liar? Could Lonny trust him when he said he loved her?
Disaster Area Nurse
The thunder roared and crashed about them — but Nurse Lynn Lawrence felt that the wildness of the storm was rivaled by the frantic racing of her own thoughts.
She cast a glance at her fiance, Greg Avery. Beside him, huddled helplessly, was the pretty Dawn Evans. There was no doubt that Greg was paying a great deal of attention to comforting Dawn — too much, Lynn thought.
But there was another in the group of flood-marooned strangers. He was handsome, and smiled at Lynn in a way that sent her heart fluttering.
Surely things would right themselves once they got back to civilization. But in a disaster like this, a short time could lead to a broken-hearted eternity.
District Nurse
Sidewalks.
The sidewalks of city streets; the sidewalks of any city; your city, mine. But not of any streets. Not the sidewalks of the manicured boulevards, the wide tree-bordered avenues. Not the sidewalks which lie, relatively immaculate, before the doorsteps of the rich; not those lightly trodden upon by eighteen-dollar, bench-made shoes, desecrated by the crass, if functional behavior, of leashed and high-hat dogs; nor yet the sidewalks decorated by the spotless uniforms of Generalissimos in the Doorman’s Army. Not these.
Just sidewalks, over which the same sky arches, but a sky made vocal with the hoarse shriek of the hurtling L’s, just sidewalks built on a common soil beneath which, like as not, the clamorous mole, the subway, weaves and burrows its vocal path. Just sidewalks, littered with paper, with casual garbage, marked with the pressure of countless feet, hurrying feet, feet which go unshod, feet protected against heat and cold by the makeshift leathers of the poor. Sidewalks, endless highways, leading to birth, to death, to success and to failure; leading to the cold, crowded windings of city rivers, leading out to freer, wider areas, leading — back…
Doctor Betty
I’ve made my decision, thought Betty Eaton, and it’s the only self-respecting choice I can make. Two years of love and hope were erased when Betty decided not to marry Hal, who wanted a full-time wife, not a “lady doctor.” Betty wanted to be wife and doctor. But perhaps she could not have everything. Forced to choose, she chose medicine.
The demands of medical school give Betty few hours to think about the painful break with Hal. Soon she makes close ties with students, interns and teachers, all dedicated to the business of saving lives. Lectures and lab work give way to examining real patients. Slowly, fulfillingly, Betty evolves from classroom student to almost-doctor: alert and skilled during long nights on the emergency wards, quick and capable as a key member of a surgery team, triumphant as she helps deliver a baby. At the same time, her relationships with people seem to flower. She discovers that some men want to marry women doctors. She even comes to understand and resolve her battle with the over-critical, steel-eyed Chief of Medical Services, Dr. Axworth — “The Ax.”
Finally, as Dr. Betty Eaton she is ready for the responsibility of internship and residency at General Hospital, a pulsating medical center in New York City. Still, something is missing. Her sister is married, her friends are marrying and Betty cannot forget her dream: blending marriage and medicine. When she meets Jack Gage, she senses that her dream is at hand. Fulfilling it becomes her greatest challenge. Can she fairly divide her time between Jack and her career? Will he understand that when the lights go on in the operating room at three in the morning, she must be there? Will his family and friends accept a new doctor — and a woman at that — in their small Massachusetts community? Betty struggles to meet the challenge with honesty, femininity and a devotion to both her chosen professions: being wife and being a family doctor.
Doctor’s Nurse
What did this handsome surgeon, old enough to be her father, want of her? Did he expect her to be more than a devoted assistant?
Attractive Patricia Lloyd, R.N., had two problems — both of them doctors.
Dr. Jeffrey Wayne was handsome, mature and mysteriously drawn to Patricia, beyond the call of duty.
Dr. Bill Gregory was young, very much in love and intensely jealous.
Caught between the two, Patricia found her personal emotions — and professional duty — in sudden and grave danger.
Door to Door Nurse
Grim duty forced Rietta to leave the life she loved — and face probable heartache.
Rietta Mendall, R.N., was perfectly happy. She was, in fact, in the middle of counting her blessings — her interesting work, her comfortable apartment — when tragedy struck. Her brother’s teenage son was in trouble, and Rietta’s help was needed. And when such a need existed, Rietta could not place her own happiness first.
She knew that her brother’s troubles would clear up in time. But her own way of life was drastically altered. To support herself now, she worked as a visiting nurse serving the trailer community. Her patients’ problems became her problems…and multiplied rapidly. Then romance beckoned…and Rietta knew it was the one problem she might not be able to solve!
Double Duty Nurse
Could she extricate herself from deep involvement in a romantic triangle before it damaged her nursing career?
An accident emergency brought Tracey Talbot, R.N. from vacation pleasures to a hospital operating room, as a surgical nurse for the handsome young Dr. Shan Malone.
This emergency operation brought her more than she had expected to find at the small ranch community, where she was visiting her aunt prior to beginning her nursing career. It brought her the anguish of a romantic triangle.
Win or lose, she knew the battle of love could mean the end of her nursing career.
Dr. Brad’s Nurse
Could the brilliant surgeon she loved love her?
Gran had said it herself: “Life isn’t going to be easy for you, Natalie. You feel things too deeply. You’re liable to be hurt, my dear.”
Then Gran died, and Natalie was alone…alone with her love for Dr. Bob Bradburn and her deep desire to become his nurse. Courage and determination carried her through nurse’s training, and part of her ambition became reality. Dr. Brad wanted her as his nurse, and she became invaluable to him…as his nurse. But in the meantime, he had married the beautiful but ruthless Marjorie. Natalie knew her love for Dr. Brad would never die. Could she face a lifetime of working with no hope that that love would be returned?
Dr. Dorothy’s Choice
A beautiful young doctor risks everything to save her hospital, her career — and her love.
As a doctor at the Still River hospital and as the bride-to-be of Tom Norman, Doc Bailey had exactly what she wanted in life — to cure the sick and to love and be loved.
Then both her career and her love were threatened — one by an ambitious doctor, the other by a beautiful, seductive woman. Both had power, money and cunning behind them.
Alone, with only her conscience and her love to guide her, Doctor Dee had to make the decision which would determine not only her own future, but the future of the hospital and the entire Still River community as well.
Dr. Jane’s Choice
Dr. Jane Langford Latham, believing that her love for Dave Riley is not big enough for marriage — certainly not the all-encompassing love she had felt for Bill Latham — leaves Halesville, Indiana, for Central City, where she has been offered the post of Director of Out-Patient Medical and Nursing Service at City Hospital. In Central City, away from Dave, she feels she can come to a decision about her future and, at the same time, perform a valuable service.
But City Hospital has changed. Dr. Grady Blaine, an ambitious and self-seeking man, is now chief of staff, replacing the beloved Dr. Warren of Dr. Jane’s internship years at City. At every step of the way, Dr. Jane is opposed by Grady Blaine, and when, because of the needless death of a young girl in “Rivertown,” she becomes involved in an active campaign to clean up Central City’s slum district, Dr. Blaine’s hostility becomes an open and malevolent thing.
Homesick for Halesville — more homesick, too, for writer Dave Riley than she will acknowledge — Jane welcomes the opportunity to visit Johnson Memorial Hospital and talk with Dr. James Hanna, upon whose shoulders has fallen the full burden of Dr. Jane’s former practice. Dr. Hanna has a “case” he wishes to discuss with Jane, he says, but Jane finds that the case is a hypothetical one involving an article Dave Riley is writing….
Dr. Hanna’s ruse to get Dr. Jane back to Halesville works — her choice is made. She returns to Central City to complete the reforms she has started, secure in the knowledge that her real happiness lies in Halesville, working with Jim Hanna and loving the reporter-turned-writer whom Fate had sent thousands of miles to meet a dedicated young woman doctor in a lonely mission post in Africa.
Duty Nurse
They were caught in a triangle of tenderness and tragedy. The doctor, the patient, and the beautiful nurse.
The girl in Room 17 was so young and lovely and had so little time left. How could the doctor deny her anything…even himself?
The duty nurse was kind and wise beyond her years. Could she deny her tragic patient anything…even the man she herself loved?
The Tiny Pineapple Nurse Book Collection currently consists of 298 unique volumes.
