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"Brilliant !" -- Chicago Tribune.
"Bawdy blistering... this is Catch-22 with stethoscopes." --Cosmopolitan.
"Does for the practice of medicine what Catch-22 and M*A *S *H did for the practice of warfare." -- The Newark Star-Ledger
"Wildly funny... frightening... outrageous, moving... a story of modern medicine rarely, if, ever told." -- The Houston Chronicle
From the Paperback edition.
"Bawdy blistering... this is Catch-22 with stethoscopes." --Cosmopolitan.
"Does for the practice of medicine what Catch-22 and M*A *S *H did for the practice of warfare." -- The Newark Star-Ledger
"Wildly funny... frightening... outrageous, moving... a story of modern medicine rarely, if, ever told." -- The Houston Chronicle
From the Paperback edition.
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Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile nurses. But only the Fat Man --the Clam, all-knowing resident -- could sustain them in their struggle to survive, to stay sane, to love-and even to be doctors when their harrowing year was done.
From the Paperback edition.
From the Paperback edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
That's the Way It Was,
By "drruss" (Pinehurst, NC United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital (Mass Market Paperback)
I read this book when I was a medical resident at a Southern BMS (Best Medical School), and I was convinced that the author ("Dr. X" at the time) was a colleague! His language, descriptions of patients, anecdotes, and staff portrayals were too similar not to have come directly from the wards and clinics where I worked. And, I was horrified to see, from another vantage point, what I and my fellow residents were becoming. When I re-read the book decades later, I was grateful that a great many things have changed in our approaches to training new physicians.There are two primary aspects of interest in this book: first, it is an uproariously funny book to anyone who trained in an urban medical center in the 1960-1970 era (others will miss 90% of the "in-group" humor), and, second, it is a devastating indictment of the way that physicians were trained at medical centers in the middle of the 20th century. It is a good read, but now of most interest to 50+ year-old physicians and nurses.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Changed Harry Hill's life,
By A Customer
This review is from: The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital (Paperback)
Per John Koski of the 'Books' column in the Daily Mail April 2004, when asked "Have any books changed your life?", the comedian Harry Hill replied, "'The House of God' By Samuel Shem, a novel about a junior doctor in America which takes the lid off the idea of medicine being a vocation. I read it when I was a junior doctor and it made me give up my job."
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Good read,
This review is from: The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital (Paperback)
Story about interns at an American Hospital. Takes the basis of life as an intern and perhaps paints it with widely exaggerated colors. Only about 80% done, but so far the story has been a good read. The characters express views modern interns would never admit to having, but probably have had in some dark recess of their minds at some point in time.
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