Everyman, the obsolete 70-year-old child, is subjected to endless medical tests to find out that he is "in pretty good shape for the shape he is in."

Froggy isn't looking forward to his check-up because he might get a shot but when it's over and he's pronounced a very healthy frog, Dr. Mugwort is the one who dreads Froggy's next visit.

When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.

"Fans of Taylor's bestselling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Newly married to his once long-lost sweetheart, he's ready to settle into domestic bliss, but there's always something requiring his attention, be it a riding accident, a difficult patient with a worrisome heart condition, a spot of grouse-hunting, or even some tricky...

Little lion Luka, who is definitely not scared of doctors, is determined to set a brave example for his younger sister Lulu as she goes for her first checkup.

Only eighteen when she is sent to Afghanistan, British army medic Elinor Nielson is continually at odds with her hardnosed bunkmate, Heidi Larson, but connects with a mysterious Afghan girl and local children, as well as an American lieutenant.

A little boy does everything the doctor tells him to do when he goes for his check-up.

"An elephant has being playing with his toys and putting all of them away in the wrong place. Soon his mother notices that something is not quite right with her little one's trunk"-- Provided by publisher.

When three sheep arrive at the City hospital, Doctor Glenda and Nurse Percy are happy to reunite Little Bo Peep with her lost sheep, but they'll have to help them relieve the gassy build up that is making their tummies hurt.

Hot Lips Houlihan, Hawkeye Pierce, Radar O'Reilly, and other familiar characters make their first appearance in this Korean War novel about the crazy antics of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.