The Fat Man returns from Mount St. Elsewheres and the VA. Roy hopes the Fat Man will save him. The Fat Man is planning on joining a GI fellowship after the year is over with. Roy ends up on the worst ward, 4-North with the Fat Man, Hyper Hooper and Eat My Dust Eddie. The Fat Man is hoping to get a good letter of recommendation from the Fish, and it all rides on how well he runs this rotation.
They meet their BMSs. They go and meet their patients, some of which are in the "Rose Room", a room so named as every patient in the room is named Rose. Hyper Hooper is especially into getting as many postmortem examinations as possible. Fats is into total bowel.....