Head Nurse, by Barbara Villet was a very touching drama about a typical day in a metropolitan hospital.

"... and my problem is whether I die now or die later, isn't it?" For this courageous patient, Tanya Olsen, the problem is more than a matter of simply living or dying, as the closed-mouth doctor at her bedside knows well. For Tanya Olsen is the victim of leukemia and will soon become the victim of its treatment in Barbara Villet's "Head Nurse". "Please, no more pain, she cried." "Just let me go."

Based on months of research, Head Nurse takes the reader into the lives of nurses, doctors, and patients, whose diseases read like a list of the ways of dying. The drama compiles information and emotions dealing with a typical day of over-loaded, understaffed, underbudgeted metropolitan hospital. This book is a powerful example of one young women's struggle to keep medicine humane in circumstances where crisis, despair, ego, and dedication conspire to make it just the opposite.