Robert Nachtwey, doctor of medicine, discusses growing up in Lansing, Iowa, studying at Notre Dame and St. Louis Universities, internship at the Mayo Clinic, WWII service as captain and medic, and practicing internal medicine in Springfield, Illinois.

10 tapes, 840 mins. Interview by Matthew R. Nachtwey, 1991 OPEN: narrator reserves right to review edited transcript. See collateral file: interviewer's notes and a partial unrevised transcript.