Paul Anna Soik

Title: Nurse Brookes
Author: Kate Norway (pseud. Olive Norton)
Published: ©1957
Publisher: Harlequin 
Illustrator: Paul Anna Soik

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner. 

Helen Brookes had left Byng’s Hospital to get married … and come back again, her engagement broken. She had made one distressing, almost disastrous mistake; now she would be more careful, she told herself, more clear-headed about her own emotions. All of which did not prevent her from falling in love with a surgeon who, it seemed, was not free to marry.

Bern Smith

Title: Nurse Rivers’ Secret
Author: Anne Durham
Published: December 1965, ©1965
Publisher: Harlequin
Illustrator: Bern Smith

His signature is in the upper left-hand corner.

Everyone at Ripplegate General Hospital was tremendously excited when the film star Dawn Delaney was admitted as a patient—everyone, that is, except Nurse Nina Rivers, who knew Dawn only too well and dreaded the complications she would inevitably bring with her. 

Bern Smith

Title: Doctor Vannard’s Patients
Author: Pauline Ash
Published: 19754, ©1964
Publisher: Harlequin
Illustrator: Bern Smith

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

Camilla’s selfish husband was responsible for more than the car crash which scarred her and crippled both him and their daughter Laurie. Yet he was still her husband—even though she might love Philip Ancliffe, another badly injured patient at the hospital where she worked.

Norm Eastman

Title: To Please the Doctor
Author: Marjorie Moore
Published: 1974, ©1950
Publisher: Harlequin
Illustrator: Norm Eastman

His signature is in the upper left-hand corner of the illustration.

Dr. Duncan McRey was a most difficult person, thought Jill Fernley, and almost as bad was Brenda Malling, her staff nurse. Jill loved her work in St. Joseph’s Hospital, but hated the intrigues and friction of community life. Brenda was jealous of Jill’s success, but why, oh! why had Dr. McRey to be so unfriendly to nurses when he was so gentle with children? Was he like that to all women? This was a question which came to concern Jill more and more before at last she found the answer.

Bern Smith

Title: Doctor Jonathan
Author: Jane Alan
Published: 1976, ©1955
Publisher: Harlequin
Illustrator: Bern Smith

His signature runs up her right sleeve.

After the death of her father, Vicky Meredith went to London to take up a stage career, but this ambition was soon ended by a severe throat infection. On her return home, Vicky found her very good friend Paul engaged to her sister Jennifer, and bitterly hurt, she took a job with Doctor Jonathan Crofts. This turned out to be a wise decision for her future happiness, but it was some time before this became apparent to Vicky.

Jack Harman

Title: Peter Raynal, Surgeon
Author: Marjorie Moore
Published: 1974
Publisher: Harlequin
Illustrator: Jack Harman

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner. 

This is the story of Kay Somers, nurse, and Peter Raynal, a popular and brilliant surgeon. The strongly opposed forces of their respective characters bring them into a constant conflict which comes to a head when Kay is confronted with the loss of her position at St. Jude’s Hospital, and the breaking of her engagement to the ambitious young farmer who has been a life-long family friend. The story is set against the background of Hospital life and Kay’s own rural home, and brings into relief the diverse qualities of her nature. Her gradual change of heart is brought about through her affection for an ailing child, a reciprocated affection which pierces Kay’s natural armour of reserve. It is the child Christine’s influence on Kay which forges the first link of understanding between herself and Peter Raynal, an understanding which is destined to change the whole course of Kay’s life and bring her the joy and happiness which she had once believe lost to her for all time.

Paul Anna Soik

Title: Theatre Nurse
Author: Hilda Pressley Nickson
Published: 1965, ©1960
Publisher: Harlequin
Illustrator: Paul Anna Soik

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

Catharine Manton was beautiful and efficient, and “her” operating theatre was perfectly run. Why, then, did the new R.S.O. declare that he couldn’t possibly work with her, even if it meant that he—not she—would have to leave the hospital?

Paul Anna Soik

Title: Hospital Corridors
Author: Mary Burchell
Published: 1975, ©1955
Publisher: Harlequin
Illustrator: Paul Anna Soik

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

Madeline felt that she was on the brink of a completely new life when she left England to do a year’s nursing in a great Montreal hospital. But she found that, after all, she had already met on board ship—though he was said to be so unapproachable—Dr. Lanyan, a distinguished member of the staff; and one of the patients would be the beautiful (but very difficult) Mrs. Sanders whom she had nursed before, with her good-looking and attentive son among the visitors. Still, everything else—except her familiar, well-loved work—would be excitingly new, and she  might even have occasion to work for Dr. Lanyon ...

Paul Anna Soik

Title: Doctor Lucy
Author: Barbara Allen (pseud. Violet Finlay Stuart)
Published: ©1956
Publisher: Harlequin
Illustrator: Paul Anna Soik

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner. 

A woman doctor, Lucy found, is still suspect to her male colleagues. “We teach you and train you,” they argue, “and then what happens? You marry!” Well, Lucy announced, she wouldn’t. She had finished with love and marriage since Johnny Eglington had let her down so badly, and now she could come back without fear of any complications, to the district where Johnny and his wife still lived. She explained this to Johnny himself, to Michael Dare, her old friend, and to her chief at the Melfield Hospital, that clever surgeon Paul Brandon. Extraordinary that none of them seemed to be quite convinced!

Bern Smith

Title: Love ... the Surgeon
Author: Hilda Pressley
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: ©1961
Illustrator: Bern Smith 

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner. 

Badly hurt by an unhappy love affair, Sister Beth Anderson tried to avoid further disaster by adopting an aloof coldness toward men. Would the kindly consultant, Owen Hastings, make her change her mind—or, as she became unwillingly attracted to the philandering R.S.O., Andrew Longford, would history repeat itself?

Jack Harman

Title: Love the Physician
Author: Hilda Jackson
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: ©1960
Illustrator: Jack Harman

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner. 

Doctor Laura Travers had always mothered and taken charge of her young sister, and when an unfortunate episode threatened to ruin Jacquel’ne's life she was only too willing to give up her job in London and help her sister to make a fresh start. So they retreated to a remote Norfolk village, where things at last seemed to be soring themselves out—but would they ever be able to escape from the past forever?

Paul Anna Soik

Title: Garde Girarde
Author: Jane Arbor
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: ©1961
Illustrator: Paul Anna Soik

His signature (which is very hard to see) is under their hands in the lower left-hand corner.

Ghislaine Girard, infirmière de service général a l’hôpital St-Rémi, s’était répété que ce serait presque folie de tomber amoureuse du distingué chirurgien Adrien Pellerin qui ne s’intéressait qu’à son habileté professionnelle. Encore pis, il semblait favoriser un mariage entre ell et son charmant mais trop volage cousin Collin pendant wque lui-même faisait une cour assidue a la sophistiquée et autoritaire Adeline. Garde Girard savait fort bien qu’il valait mieux l’oublier. Mais … le coeur a des raisons que la raison ne connaît pas!

Jack Harman

Title: Desert Nurse
Author: Jane Arbor
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: March 1964, ©1963
Illustrator: Jack Harman

His signature “H” is in the lower left-hand corner of the page.

After the break-up of her romance with Greg Ryder, Nurse Martha Shore decided that the best thing to do was to find a new interest, which she did with a vengeance when she accepted Doctor Jude Tarleton’s offer of a post at his tiny  hospital east of Aden. She had successfully managed to jump out of the frying-pan. But did her new job in the burning desert heat, not ominously resemble the proverbial fire? For it was not long before Martha had to admit her love for Greg was forgotten in her new, overwhelming attraction to Jude—an attraction which he made clear was not returned. How could she hope to appeal to him, anyway, when the experienced and glamorous Naomi was already so firmly in the picture?

Part-Time Nurse

Title: Part-Time Nurse
Author: Elizabeth Houghton
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: July 1964, ©1964
Illustrator: Jack Harman

His signature “H” is in the lower left-hand corner of the page.

At home, Karen was very much in the background, coming a poor second to her glamorous half-sister Celia, but in her work as part-time nurse in a home for old people, she was loved by all her patients, and she found a good friend in Simon Guthrie, the consultant physician. And then Simon met Celia. Would the inevitable happen?

Paul Anna Soik

Title: Special Nurse
Author: Jean S. MacLeod
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: June 1961, ©1944
Illustrator: Paul Anna Soik

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

Nurse Lindsey Hamilton knew that she owed to Richard Stewart Harvey, surgeon, the almost miraculous recovery of her dearly beloved brother. She knew too that she could—that she did—love Richard himself. But when, by coincidence, Richard’s own brother Douglas came to the same hospital as a patient, it seemed that she could best repay her debt to Richard by marrying Douglas. In a world where daily sacrifices were asked and made, she had this much to give. What would be her decision?

Jack Harman

Title: Queen’s Nurse
Author: Jane Arbor
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: June 1960, ©1954
Illustrator: Jack Harman

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

“He has the power to get what he wants, and he is the type who could hate to lose to anyone else …” So, in a bitter moment of defeat, had Jess Mawney summed up a complete stranger with whom she had occasion to cross swords. Little did Jess know, as she went to take up her first ‘district’ as “Queen’s Nurse,” that she would be living on the stranger’s door-step. Neither would Jess have believed it possible that, one day, she  might hope that this stranger’s “power to get” would be directed towards herself. 

Bern Smith

Title: Seaside Hospital
Author: Pauline Ash
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: ©1964
Illustrator: Bern Smith

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

As a nurse, Lisa Bryant knew the importance of treatment for kleptomania, but when she found that her own sister was suffering from it she didn’t know who to turn to—well, she did know, but she was determined not to drag Doctor Randall Carson into it.

Jack Harman

Title: The Taming of Nurse Conway
Author: Nora Sanderson
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: June 1965, ©1964
Illustrator: Jack Harman

His signature “H.” is in the lower left-hand corner.

Nurse Nicky Conway already hated Dr. Peter Trenton, whom she considered responsible for her mother’s death—so that when he began to interfere with her plans for marrying Geoff Hutchinson, it was altogether too much to bear!

Bern Smith

Title: Nurse Incognito
Author: Fay Chandos
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: February 1964
Illustrator: Bern Smith

His signature is in the lower left-hand corner.

When a love affair between a nurse and a doctor goes wrong, the unhappiness of the situation is naturally increased if they have to go on working in the same hospital. That was why Caroline was glad to get away from St. Keverne’s ... and Brandon ... to a temporary job in the lovely Bahamas. It was disconcerting, though, for her to find herself in the middle of a family feud. Her first loyalty was to the old lady who employed her, but she couldn't help liking and trusting Roland Dayler and sympathizing with his refusal to give up his children; couldn’t help, either, liking (though she didn’t trust) that “wicked” younger brother whose bad reputation was enough to make any woman look twice at him.

Chapman

Title: Nurse with a Dream
Author: Norrey Ford
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1974, ©1957
Illustrator: Chapman

The signature runs up the right-hand corner. I am unable to determine who this was, so if you know, please post a comment below and let me know!

When Jacqueline Clarke came from France to nurse at a Yorkshire hospital she had never known any Englishmen except her father. Soon she was to meet two very attractive ones; her farmer-cousin Guy, who ruled over his broad acres from a centuries-old farmhouse, and the distinguished surgeon of whom nurses spoke in awed whispers as “the great Mr. Broderick.” Guy fell in love and started proposing marriage almost at once, while she wasn’t supposed even to speak to Mr. Broderick—and what a sensation there was when she did! She couldn’t presume to imagine that he would ever give her a serious thought…and yet the idea of him seemed to come persistently between her and Guy.