The House of God

Name: The House of God
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.22 (23 reviews)
Author: Samuel Shem, M.D.
ISBN: 9781452674414

Author: Samuel Shem, M.D.

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 14 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/27/2011

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative journey that takes us into the lives of Roy Basch and five of his fellow interns at the most renowned teaching hospital in the country. Young Dr. Basch and his irreverant confident, known only as the Fat Man, will learn not only how to be fine doctors but, eventually, good human beings.

Samuel Shem has done what few in American medicine have dared to do—create 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 stand at the crossroads between science and humanity.

With over two million copies sold worldwide, The House of God has been hailed as one of the most important medical novels of the twentieth century and compared to Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith for its poignant portrayal of the education of American doctors.

About Samuel Shem, M.D.

Samuel Shem is the pen name of Stephen Bergman, a doctor, novelist, playwright, and activist. A Rhodes Scholar, he was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for three decades. His books include Mount Misery, the 2008 National Best Book Award winner The Spirit of the Place, and Fine. With his wife, Janet Surrey, he wrote the hit off-Broadway play Bill W. and Dr. Bob, which won the Peforming Arts Award of the National Council on Alcoholism in 2007, and the nonfiction book We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men, winner of the 1999 Boston Interfaith Council's Paradigm Shift Award. He lives in Boston and Costa Rica.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Efka on September 01, 2016

Apie šitą knyga būtų galima rašyti ir kalbėti daug: pradėti nuo to, kokios yra medicinos realijos lyginant su mūsų visų susidarytomis iliuzijomis, maitinamomis visokių grej anatomijų ir daktarų hausų ir baigti daktarų persidirbimais ir psichozėmis. Bet nieko panašaus daryti aš nenoriu. Nenoriu ne to......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on September 08, 2007

I read this in college, then again my first year of medical school, then again my last year of medical school, then again during my internship, and I'm reading it once more now as a senior resident. Along with the television show Scrubs, it's the most accurate portrayal of American medicine that I'm......more

Goodreads review by Andy on June 13, 2013

I've avoided reading this for years. To be fair, I didn't even know about it until half way through med school and then I never had much desire to come home and 'read about the day job'. But, now I'm a GP and have been out of the hospital for approaching 2 years now I thought I'd give it a whirl. Hmm......more

Goodreads review by Hamad on February 14, 2023

This Review ✍️ Blog 📖 Twitter 🐦 Instagram 📷 Support me ☕ “It’s an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society” Although this book has more than 2 million copies in print, I only heard about it two years ago when I was doing an elective in my inter......more

Goodreads review by Amy on February 13, 2020

First of all, let me say that i have never heard of this book. However, i won the sequel through a giveaway on goodreads in exchange for an honest review. Anyone who knows me knows that i must start from the beginning of a series! So i checked this book out from my local library and read it so I cou......more