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House Of God

Samuel Shem, M.D.

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English
Black Swan
01 May 1998
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
*A
*S
*H, and does for the doctor's art what Catch-22 did for the art of war.e year award, or Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet.

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!
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Imprint:   Black Swan
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   279g
ISBN:   9780552991223
ISBN 10:   0552991228
Pages:   397
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sameul Shem (Stephen Bergman M.D.) graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and earned a Ph.D in physiology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the novels The House of God, Mount Misery and Fine, and seven plays, including, with Janet Surrey, Bill W. and Dr. Bob. He is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Stone Centre, Wellesley College. He lives near Boston with his wife and daughter.

Reviews for House Of God

Great glittering floods of talent rage through this extraordinary novel * Cosmopolitan * A wildly funny, sad, laugh-out-loud, frightening, outrageous, thought-provoking, moving book * Houston Chronicle * Raw, realistic, ribald and randy -- Richard Gordon, author of Doctor in the House Catch-22 with stethoscopes * Cosmopolitan *


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