Mrs. Vidler, whose husband has a large abdominal cyst. Andrew arranges for his elitist associate, Mr. Charles Ivory, Surgeon, to operate with Andrew assisting as anaesthetist. Ivory botches the operation, and while Mr. Vidler is bleeding to death Ivory rapidly sews up the body, cynically declaring that since the body was closed at the moment of death there is no need for an inquest. Andrew overhears Ivory untruthfully informing Mrs. Vidler, the widow, that it was a kindness that he had died as he did, for death was inevitable even had he survived the operation such was the severity of his underlying morbidity. Ivory has lied and deceived to cover his errors, and it is now apparent to Andrew that Ivory is both surgically incompetent and entirely untrustworthy and unethical. Andrew confronts Ivory and accuses him of murder. This tragedy has been an epiphany for Andrew. Episode 9: Andrew, on returning home, breaks down as he explains to Christine what has happened. They reconcile, and Andrew informs Christine that he can no longer bear to live in London. He suggests teaming up with Philip Denny and David Hope in a practice in a country town, with Philip contributing his skills as a surgeon and David contributing his skills as a bacteriologist. The idea for such a collaboration was inspired by Robert Stillman's descriptions of such enterprises emerging in America. Andrew decides that the Victoria Chest Hospital is not the best place for Mary Boland to be treated, and Dr Thoroughgood is refusing to see the merit in Andrew's suggestion that she needs a pneumothorax induced in order to rest the diseased lung. Thoroughgood is reluctant to adopt such modern techniques. Andrew and Christine drive to the Bellevue sanitarium to meet Stillman, who informs them that he has a very long waiting list. However, Stillman soon agrees to Andrew's request to accept Mary Boland under his care. In his Welbeck Street clinic, Andrew confesses to his wealthy patients that he has been providing them with unnecessary treatments because it is all too easy "to take money from rich hypochondriacs". He pays Nurse Sharp a month's salary in lieu of notice, as he cancels his patients and closes his clinic immediately. He asks Nurse Sharp, however, to accompany him on Thursday when moving Mary Boland from the Victoria Chest Hospital to the Bellevue sanitarium. Mary Boland is successfully transferred, and Stillman declares