The House of God
by Samuel Shem
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This book is a mesmerzing and provacative journey that takes us into the lives of 6 interns at the most renowned teaching hospital in the country where they learn not only how to be fine doctors, but eventually good human beings. The author has created an unvarnished, unglorified, and amazingly forthright portrait revealing the depth of caring, pain, pathos, and tragedy felt by all who spend their lives treating patients and have dared to stand at the crossroads between science and humanity. -- Publisher description
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Fiction, Fiction in English, Hospitals, Interns (Medicine), Internship and Residency, Medical education, Medical students, Physicians, Popular works, Teaching hospitals, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Literature, Residents (Medicine), Nurses, Medical fiction, Fictional Works Publication Type, Church history, History, MedicineShowing 4 featured editions. View all 18 editions?
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"We expect the world of doctors."
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As in all hospitals, the medical hierarchy of The House of God was a pyramid - a lot at the bottom and one at the top. Put another way, it was like an ice-cream cone...you had to lick your way up!Roy Basch, the 'red-hot' Rhodes Scholar, thought differently - but then he hadn't met Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, nor Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet. He hadn't even met any of the Gomers ('Get Out of My Emergency Room!'), the no-hopers who wanted to die but who were worth more alive...The House of God is a wild and raunchily irreverent novel that teaches you the not-so-gentle arts of healing, and tells you what your doctor never wanted you to know. It is the best medicine since M*ASH, and does for the doctor's art what Catch-22 did for the art of war.
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