The House of God - by Samuel Shem (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>At once hilarious and brutally honest, this novel reaches beyond the white lab coat and reveals what doctors, nurses, and students actually endure. "The House of God" has done for medicine what "M*A*S*H" did for warfare.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, <i>The House of God</i> is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about what it really takes to become a doctor. <p/>"The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon. Singularly compelling...brutally honest."--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>Struggling with grueling hours and sudden life-and-death responsibilities, Basch and his colleagues, under the leadership of their rule-breaking senior resident known only as the Fat Man, must learn not only how to be fine doctors but, eventually, good human beings. <p/>A phenomenon ever since it was published, <i>The House of God</i> was the first unvarnished, unglorified, and uncensored portrait of what training to become a doctor is truly like, in all its terror, exhaustion and black comedy. With more than two million copies sold worldwide, it has been hailed as one of the most important medical novels ever written. <p/><b>With an introduction by John Updike </b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>The House of God</i></b> <p/>"The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon. Singularly compelling...brutally honest."--<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"Bawdy, blistering...this is <i>Catch-22</i> with stethoscopes."--<i>Cosmopolitan</i> <p/>"Wonderfully wild, ribald, erotic, bitter, compassionate...in the same spirit as <i>Catch-22</i>."--<i>The Seattle Times</i> <p/>"A wildly funny, sad, laugh-out-loud, frightening, outrageous, thought-provoking, moving book...a story of modern medicine rarely, if ever, told."--<i>The Houston Chronicle</i> <p/>"Does for the practice of medicine what <i>Catch-22</i> and<i> M*A*S*H</i> did for the practice of warfare."--<i>The Newark Star-Ledger </i> <p/>"Mordantly funny, brilliantly ironic...A writer of outstanding substance and style."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Samuel Shem</b> is a novelist, playwright, and, for three decades, a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. His novels include <i>The House of God</i>, <i>Mount Misery</i>, and <i>Fine</i>. He is coauthor with his wife, Janet Surrey, of the hit Off-Broadway play <i>Bill W. and Dr. Bob</i>, the story of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (winner of the 2007 Performing Arts Award of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence), and <i>We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women</i>.
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