Judge

Talking about surgical viva, it is well known to generations of our medical students that the King of the Round Table - at least when he was the chairman - would specifically do the clinical examination with a few selected candidates and offer a fair assessment.

(For those who are not familiar with the definition of fair, please refer to http://ccszeto.blogspot.com/2008/07/complaint.html)

In general, we did not worry that much; the King would pick only a handful of students who regularly skip the class. On one occasion, however, he did make a surprise attack and chose to examine a particular student (who almost always attend tutorials and lectures on time, and was one of the regular scholarship winner) in the most serious manner.

Many of us were suspicious and had very little idea what's going on. It was only some time later when we came to realize that particular student was mixed up in a scandal (to be accurate, a series of scandals) with several women.

PS. That very student passed, by the skin of his teeth literally (or with his skin on the King's teeth ?) - so much so he had to give up the plan of becoming a surgeon.

I suspect that's all what the chairman wanted.