House Of God
$23.69
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 May 1998
Summary
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.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552991223 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552991228 |
| Author: | Samuel Shem |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 1998 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Black Swan S. |
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Great glittering floods of talent rage through this extraordinary novel
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 HouseCatch-22 with stethoscopes * Cosmopolitan *
About The Author
Samuel Shem
Samuel 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.
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