In this hilarious romantic comedy, Richard Gordon awakes one morning with a headache. It takes him a while to realise he is ill- after all he is a doctor! Dr Pennyworth diagnoses jaundice and prescribes a spell in hospital. But amongst the bedpans and injections in Honesty ward, Richard falls in love- with his own Florence Nightingale. However he soon learns that he has as rival for her affections, and unwilling to lose his love to the pachyderm Dr Hinyman, Richard sets out to impress….