The Houseman's Tale

Dr Bob Souter slowly begins to recover from his infection with hepatitis, but others have not been so lucky. David continues to work as a houseman and underling for his superiors, working now under the eccentric charges of Alester Ravelston-Orr and John Lockhead. He is often thrown in at the deep end, performing surgery at one time on a woman with gangrene on an operation his superior should be doing that does not go to plan. By chance he bumps into Alison Quothquan, the granddaughter of the poet who died due to a top surgeon's misdiagnosis, and it soon develops into a tentative relationship. But all the while hepatitis continues to spread through the hospital and when a reporter, Phil Duffy, hears of the hospital's attempts to cover it up, he decides to expose the scandal. As yet more staff begin to fall ill, including David himself, he comes to a shocking conclusion as to the cause of it's infection.