As in all hospitals, the medical hierarchy of The House of God was a pyramid - a lot at the bottom and one at the top.Put another way it was like an ice-cream cone...you had to lick your way up!

Roy Basch, the ''red-hot'' Rhodes Scholar, thought differently - but then he hadn''t met Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, nor Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet.He hadn''t even met any of the Gomers (''Get Out of My Emergency Room!''), the no-hopers who wanted to die but who were worth more alive!