After a Year of absence Duncan Waring returns to St Swithins. there he reunites with fellow Doctors Paul Collier, Dick Stuart Clarke and Lawrence Bingham. will they remember Duncan?

The Minister of Health is admitted to the hospital and his presence puts everyone in a flat, especially a professor who has new hopes of a knighthood.

Dr Collier has been working to hard, and begins behaving extremely odd, even for him. the stress of the job finally reaches a critical point when he's found hanging from outside of the hospital window. it's up to his friends to get him back safely

Dr Waring and Dr Collier are complaining about the food served in the hospital. they figure the only way to change that is to get Professor Loftus to have lunch in the hospital, so he can taste the food himself.