Acknowledgments

ix

Author's Note

xiii

One

Why the Professor Became a Nurse

1

Two

Getting My Feet Wet

13

Three

First Death

27

Four

Benched

43

Five

A Day on the Floor

61

Six

Condition A

81

Seven

Openings

99

Eight

Doctors Don't do Poop

113

Nine

Switch

129

Ten

Access

147

Eleven

Poison

165

Epilogue

183