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註釋"Nancy Vincent is one capable, intelligent, self-confident, take-charge Wonder Woman. She is also caring and has a classic bedside manner as well as Sherlockian diagnostic skills. We first meet Nancy when she is a third-year medical student on her medical clerkship. We witness her spot-on diagnosis of a patient in serious trouble from tetanus, also called lockjaw. It is a pleasure to meet this brilliant and courageous medic. By this point in Nancy's young life she has established herself as a winner, not yet in the medical field, but as an English major at Wellesley, a talent scout in a New York literary agency, and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, where she assisted two Canadian nurses in a primitive hospital in a small town in the Andes. When she returned to the United States at the end of her Peace Corps stint, she had made a list of plans and desires, including to become a doctor, like her father and to make her home in Minneapolis, preferably in the Linden Hills district where she had spent her chidhood and where her parents still lived. When we return to the narrative we find Nancy has become third-year medical student on her medical clerkship at Case Western Reserve Hospital. She repeatedly impresses her student colleagues, her trainers and instructors, especially Dr. Arthur Loring, her mentor, supervisor, and her in due time her closest friend. In not much more due time, her lover and fiancâe. Nancy Vincent will soon be Dr. Nancy Loring, who is still making plans, calling the shots and making decisions. The story closes with Nancy deciding every detail of her wedding to Arthur"--