This book, Doctors, is written to make the readers witness an excerpt from the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962.

The story encompasses the life and career of two persons named Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano. It starts with their lives as kids and slowly starts portraying the way in which they converted their childhood ambitions of becoming doctors into reality. After that, the story moves on to their lives as interns. It depicts the numerous hurdles and problems they encounter in their journey to be successful doctors. As a result, their various character traits and qualities come into light. They all are portrayed to be emotionally tormented periodically and facing dilemma at times. Afterwards, the story takes an interesting turn and the suspense is created to culminate in the conclusion of the happenings in their lives.

It includes all the procedures involved in being an intern in a medical school and the troubles that accompany them. All human emotions and instincts are beautifully portrayed. It glorifies the friendship between the two persons, making it reach new heights. All the drama, romance, and suspense expected from a gripping story can be witnessed in this classic by Erich Segal.

The simple way of writing followed in the story and its gripping plot makes the book a prolific read for people belonging to all generations.

Erich Wolf Segal (born June 16, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author, screenwriter, and educator.The son of a rabbi, Segal attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn and traveled to Switzerland to take summer courses. He attended Harvard College, graduating as both the class poet and Latin salutatorian in 1958, after which he obtained his master's degree (in 1959) and a doctorate (in 1965) in comparative literature, from Harvard University.Segal was a professor of Greek and Latin literature at Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University. He now is teaching at Wolfson College, Oxford.