Synopsis

In 1987, NOVA’s cameras first captured 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 individuals – and the doctors – they have become. The program marks