Synopsis

In 1987, NOVA’s cameras first documented the lives of seven promising medical students as they began the demanding path to becoming physicians—a journey spanning years of rigorous study. From their initial days at Harvard Medical School and into the present, none could have foreseen the personal and professional challenges that lay ahead. Now, in "Doctors' Diaries," a two-hour special, NOVA revisits these students to explore the doctors—and individuals—they have become. The program marks the lat