Roy Basch is hoping to survive the hardest year of his life. He and his fellow interns have gone from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff, eager to become saviors. Instead, they will spend a year racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights, screaming patients, and nubile nurses. Only the Fat Man--the irreverent, all-knowing resident, whose words of wisdom and nonsensical methods work every time modern medicine fails--can sustain them in their struggle to stay sane. At once hilarious and brutally honest, this novel reaches beyond the white lab coat and reveals what doctors, nurses, and students actually endure. The Hose of God has done for medicine what MASH did for warfare, making readers laugh and cry as Dr. Basch learns how to be a doctor and, eventually, how to be a human being.