This man wants to be... your doctor?

This hospital comedy is a tale of greed, ignorance and corruption amongst the medical profession. Peter Sellers stars the Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel, a crooked doctor who is talented in the arts of bill-padding and unnecessary surgery.

Mistrusted by patients and resented by other staffers, his assistant (and lover!) Alice seeks revenge for one plot too many, and when a perfectly fit construction worker has a kidney unnecessarily removed, she spies her opportunity to make him pay for all his personal and professional infidelities.

In cahoots with the city hospital administrator, she frames Hopfnagel for professional misconduct and has him thrown out of the hospital, only for him to sneak back as a patient!