It takes a village : Memphis -- Scrub nurse -- Becoming a doctor : Stanford -- Becoming a surgeon : Yale -- Combat surgeon : death and our common humanity -- Getting toward equal : Sweden -- A man ain't nothin' but a man -- Orthopedic chief : Harvard -- Diagnosis and treatment : the subconscious at work -- Health-care disparities : race -- Health-care disparities : women, Hispanics, elderly, gay -- Culturally competent care.