Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Dr Simon Sparrow loses out to Bingham for job as senior house surgeon, Fact2: Swithin takes general practice job in industrial town, Fact3: patients pay in kind rural practice ranging from home-grown raspberries to poached salmon, Fact4: Benskin arranges for Sparrow and Benskin to return to St Swithin ’s, Fact5: Sparrow commences advanced surgical training with Sir Lancelot Spratt
Output (English): Back at St Swithin’s, Dr Simon Sparrow loses out to the selfimportant Dr Bingham for a job as senior house surgeon. Feeling that he has no future as a surgeon, he takes a general practice job in an industrial town. He finds that he has to do most of the work, including night calls, and is also the target of his partner’s flirty wife. He then takes a locum job with Dr PotterShine’s Harley Street practice, where most of the patients are dotty aristocrats and neurotic society women. Leaving after three months, he moves to a rural practice where patients pay in kind, ranging from homegrown raspberries to poached salmon. Meanwhile, Tony Benskin fails his finals – again – and travels to Ireland where he buys a very dubious medical degree. This leads to a post as private physician to a rich elderly aristocratic lady in Wiltshire. Sparrow and Benskin take a short holiday in France, where they save Dr Hopcroft, a governor at St Swithin’s, from an embarrassing incident. In return, he arranges for Sparrow and Benskin to return to St Swithin’s. Sparrow commences advanced surgical training with Sir Lancelot Spratt, whilst Benskin becomes personal physician to a rich Maharajah.