The whole thing would have been glossed over if it weren't for the fact that the operation room clerk was so shocked by the incident that he suffered a heart attack and died. Someone obviously got very cross and told Guy's and Tommy's they weren't going to be allowed to sit together anymore if they were going to bicker and if they were going to behave like babies they'd jolly well be treated as such.

In 1829 King's College was set up as a rival to UCL (that Godless institution on Gower street), which the authorities didn't approve of ('UCL is boring' as the song so clearly states).

King's has always had an excellent academic reputation, especially in health-related sciences. Unlike Guy's and Tommy's, where the hospitals came first, and the education of medical students grew up later, at King's it was the other way around. King's College founded the Hospital in 1840, close to Lincoln�s Inn Fields.

In 1908, however, King's College Hospital became independent, and in 1913 moved to its present site in Denmark Hill. In 1983 the King's College School of Medicine rejoined King's College London. The Institute of Psychiatry joined King's in 1997.

The Institute of Psychiatry is composed of the Maudsley Hospital and the Bethlem, the oldest mental hospital in the world!