New Games Doctors Play" are essays analyzing how the zeal for diagnosis is interfering with the mission to heal patients in hospitals. The doctors are co-dependants in this game they willingly play because it takes away the pressure of finding a treatment and also takes away some of the responsibility.
This practice however is contrary to the medical student's pledge :First do no harm." The account that follows these essays, "Fever" documents how harmful diagnosis can be to a frail patient who above all needs rest to recuperate.