This is a classic of “medical” prose. The novel is about what you are better off not knowing about hospitals and modern medicine, and about what no doctor will tell you...Six interns went on an internship at a hospital. They believed that their calling was to save people. They were graduates of the Higher School, and became lower medical personnel, on whom all the big shots fall. They must endure a year-long race to the bottom - an internship, a time-honored tradition. They will have to escape the wrath of their superiors, respond to the advances of nurses and endure the whims of patients in deep insanity. And only Fatty, the all-knowing resident, can support them in this struggle - a struggle whose goal is to remain sane and love their profession.