The back cover states: Six eager interns - they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. The came form te top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile nurses. But only the Fat Man-the calm, all knowing resident-could sustain them in their struggle to survive, to stay sane, to love-and even to be doctors when their harrowing year was done.

A must read for anyone in medicine!