Chapter 24 Summary

The Fat Man runs a crowded colloquium on how to choose a specialty. He tells them there are patient care specialties and non-patient care specialties. They talk about he advantages and disadvantages of each type of specialty. They construct a table of all of the non-patient care specialties, including the advantages and disadvantages. Roy attends the colloquium and decides completely on going with psychiatry.

Roy goes on a canoe trip with several other interns and Berry. She says the internship was inhuman and now they are stuck with being in medicine and she suggests they talk to the House psychiatrist. After the canoe trip, he takes care of one of the Zock family and is rude to the family. He is still dealing with Olive O. and spews out another House Law: If the radiology resident and the BMS both see a lesion...