A hospital. Here people are treated and saved. That’s the only essential difference between a hospital and any other closed community—an office, a hotel, a publishing house. Here they start office romances, feud, pursue careers—if necessary, even at the expense of colleagues—and plot intrigues. The only difference is that doctors and nurses forget about their personal matters and ambitions and unite if the patient’s fate is at stake… For the listener, this is the first time a complete text of the novel is offered—one that brought Arthur Hailey international fame. The actual length of this novel is almost twice as long as the shortened “magazine” version previously published under the title “Final Diagnosis.”