Level Two Summary

Everything seemed perfect when Dennis started med school. The first friend he made there was a female student from India named Ipsha Narang. By becoming a surgeon, Ipsha would be fulfilling a long-held family tradition. Hector Martinez was another classmate who went to high school with Ipsha but they weren't friends then. Hector was a jock and ladies' man in high school. He went to Harvard and flunked out his first semester. He got drunk one night and had a terrible accident. He wound up in a full-body cast and had to live at with his mother for a full year before he could return to school. He seemed to have changed his ways after his experiences.

Cathleen Rhee, known as Kat, knew Hector from their undergraduate days. They both became acquainted with Dennis and Ipsha. When Kat was ten years...