He Married a Doctor

By Faith Baldwin

“How come you aren’t taking pulses somewhere instead of increasing them?”

Hilda Barrington has just finished her medical training and gone home to practice medicine. Enter Carey Dennis, who is recovering from a broken heart after his fiancée, Maida, abruptly married a German baron, which he had to learn about from the newspapers. Despite Hilda’s reluctance to try to combine two difficult careers—medicine and marriage—she can’t help but fall for the handsome and charming Carey. But when Maida and her new husband arrive unexpectedly in town, Maida reveals to Carey that she doesn’t love Franz after all; it’s Carey she wants, and she’s not afraid to plot and scheme to make that happen. Hilda now has to fight for her husband—yet she is handicapped by the fact that her job requires her to dash out of parties when an emergency arises, miss dinner, and leave the house in the middle of the night. And she knows that Maida is usually around to point out all her deficiencies to Carey—and cry on his shoulder about how miserable she is with her own husband. It’s going to take all of Hilda’s strength if she is going to be able to solve the conflict of balancing being a woman, a doctor, and a wife.

“Miss Baldwin has written a dramatic story with sympathy and understanding that proves her faith in the young men and women of today.” March 1944, Santa Barbara News-Press