Now a classic! The hilarious?novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your?doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns?-- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be.?They came from the 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 Clam, 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. From the Paperback edition.