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.