The intern who comes to Harlem and starts his internship around April will be ready to go into surgery by June. He’s probably already tried to close up windpipes for people who’ve had their throat slit. Or tried to put intestines back in a stomach. Or somebody has hit somebody in the head with a hatchet. Or somebody has come into his house at the wrong time and caught somebody else going out the window. That’s quite a job too, putting a person back together after a four- or five-story fall.

