The House medical hierarchy was a pyramid—a lot at the bottom and one at the top. Given the mentality required to climb it, it was more like an ice-cream cone—you had to lick your way up. From constant application of tongue to next uppermost ass, those few toward the top were all tongue. A mapping of each sensory cortex would show a homunculus with a mammoth tongue overlapping an enormous portion of brain. The nice thing about the ice-cream cone was that from the bottom, you got a clear view of the slurping going on. There they were, the Slurpers, greedy optimistic kids in an ice-cream parlor
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