Andrew Davidson goes behind the scenes at Britain's largest hospital trust and describes a year in the life of a hospital through the stories of those who work and pass through there. From the man who runs the mortuary to the Chief Executive who has "finished" an affair with the head of PR, to the patients with Multi Drug Resistant Infection and those who come in to have frozen fish removed from unlikely places, this book reveals the choices that doctors, nurses, administrators and patients must make each day--decisions that are often literally a matter of life and death.