Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) is now a fully-fledged doctor in a casualty department. However, he longs for some excitement, which he gets when he is rude to an important patient and given his marching orders.

He finds himself another job, but as usual receives much unwanted female attention and still longs to be a surgeon. Via the usual hilarious mishaps and mistakes, can he succeed or is he destined to remain more popular with the opposite sex than his superiors?