Samuel Shem 
House Of God [EPUB ebook] 

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!