Elizabeth Seifert
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Description
Bess Gasparotti (June 19, 1897 – June 18, 1983), commonly known under her pen name of Elizabeth Seifert, was an American novelist known for her novels centered around the medical profession. She was reported by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat to be one of the two of "Moberly's Most Famous Women".
Books
Love calls the doctor
"Marian was beautiful and liked a good time. By contrast, her older sister Belinda was a stay-at-home. Marian had the habit of borrowing, or taking, whatever belonged to Belinda, whether it was clothes or beaux." --Back cover.
Pay the doctor
This is a story describing a year in the life of a resident doctor and the struggles he and his wife go through.
The doctor takes a wife
"Red-headed and charming, idealistic and life-loving, Dr. Phil Scoles held in his skillful powerful surgeon's hands not only the lives of many patients but the hearts of three very different women." --Back cover.
Home Town Doctor
"Dr. and Mrs. Adams were a charming young couple - a handsome, talented doctor and his lovely wife - and they reflected the small town's best image of itself. But when another doctor - and his alluring wife - moved into town, a crisis loomed that Lulu Adams had to meet with a single drastic step..." --Back cover.
Ordeal of three doctors
A strong-willed mother forces a crisis in the lives of her physician-son and his two partners.
Doctor Bill
A young doctor offers his services for a lumber company in the Missouri mountains, where he does the work of twenty specialists in the face of unbelievable primitive conditions.
The doctor's daughter
Joey Fivecoats life may have seemed enchanted to some, but to Joey herself, her sheltered, pampered existence seemed like a prison. Her strong-willed physician father wanted what was best for her, but his ideas about what was good for his daughter clashed with hers. Against her fathers wishes, Joey dreamed of becoming a doctor and she longed for love and romance. Then one day Joey met a man who ignited all the passions she had ever dreamed of, and she vowed to break free . . .
Doctor with a mission
"Could he reconcile his ideals as a doctor and his needs as a man?"--Cover.
Doctor of mercy
"Huge, redheaded Dr. Clay Walters was probably the most popular and respected man in the Cates. His only trouble was that he'd been far too busy all his thirty-five years to study much more than the clinical aspects of the female of the species--which made him an easy victim for a pretty little schemer like Maria Featherstone. But when Biddy Conway came home to care for her dying father, it didn't take Clay long to realise that Biddy was a warm, beautiful young woman and Maria just a Dresden doll. Maria Featherstone was not one to step aside gracefully, however."--Dust jacket.
The problems of Dr. A
Continually at odds with his colleagues, oppressed by a loveless marriage, and increasingly alienated from his emotionally shallow daughter, Dr. Alster, a stronly individualistic physicain, solves his problems in a totally unexpected way.
Hegerty MD
"He was something more than a young physician hoping to make his way in a new community, though only four people in the entire country were aware of it... Then Dr. Pat Hegerty fell in love with and married Muffy Dabin. Would Muffy become aware that there was one secret he could never share - even with her?" --Back cover.
