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The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital
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The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385337380
ISBN: 0385337388
Label: Dell
Manufacturer: Dell
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2003-07-01
Publisher: Dell
Product Release Date: 2003-07-01
Studio: Dell
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385337380
ISBN: 0385337388
Label: Dell
Manufacturer: Dell
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2003-07-01
Publisher: Dell
Product Release Date: 2003-07-01
Studio: Dell
Editorial Review of The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital
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.
Customer Reviews of The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: This book isn't only "set" in the 70's - it was written then!
Review: My first career was working in a county hospital as an administrative coordinator for a Family Practice Residency program and as the Credentialing/Privileging coordinator for all of the staff physicians there. What an eye-opener this book was for a then 20-something young woman fresh out of business school. My actual experiences never reached the base level that is described in this book but we were a small facility located in the San Francisco East Bay Area in the 'burbs.
That being said, I think that there is a lot of humor, entertainment and enlightenment value to the book for interns/residents and attendings and the general public who should understand that doctors are human beings. They are not "God-like" and they become just as "irreverent" within their professions as Policemen, Teachers....er...Politicians do.
I have read and re-read this book at least twice and I consider myself a fan of doctors in general.
A fun read. Enjoy.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: fantastic
Review: definitely, the best best best book i have ever read! amazing medical humor and sad truth about medicine - i was laughing loud and some tears escaped too :)
im reading this book again, again and again - i can quote any time any line. i adore this book, as im medic.student.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Classic hospital satire
Review: I've read this book 2 1/2 times now. The first time I only got through half - I was a premed and being a liberal feminist I was offended by the treatment of women. The second time I read it all the way through - I was a first year med student and after ignoring the sexist stuff it was a very funny read - but not all of it was accessible to me with my limited medical knowledge at the time. The third read was recently as a 4th year student. Even more hilarious now that I've been through the experience of the wards. Highly recommended!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Indeed, a classic...
Review: I read this book years ago, but I still use references from it today with friends and medical colleagues. I even now have a faculty job at one of the referenced hallowed institutions. It's hilarious, focally outrageous, and somewhat self-serving, but it did have some salient, useful insight. Now I want to read it again.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Scatological. Searing. Hilarious.....Brilliant
Review: I was somewhat apprehensive when my uncle, a surgeon, suggested I read this, that, in fact, this is what life is like for a medical intern. From the first page forward, I couldn't put it down. Samuel Shem's caustic, witty, and throughly penetrating writing style had me in stiches for most every day during that week over the summer that I read this. As he described the main character's time in the cardiac ward with the cardiologist who "ran for fitness, fished for calm" I thought back to all the cardiologists I knew and said "THAT's It!" they ARE all like this. This eerie must- have- gone -through -this -to -write -with -this- kind- of -realism pervades the book. Everything has the taste of authenticity. The reader laughs about "buffing and turfing" patents to other wards, and "being a wall" in the ER as opposed to the most despicable "seive."
In short, I loved this book. A truly masterful attempt at capturing the hellacious world of the medical intern and the transformation from college student with only theoretical textbook information to doctor with real world experience.
Review Summary: This book isn't only "set" in the 70's - it was written then!
Review: My first career was working in a county hospital as an administrative coordinator for a Family Practice Residency program and as the Credentialing/Privileging coordinator for all of the staff physicians there. What an eye-opener this book was for a then 20-something young woman fresh out of business school. My actual experiences never reached the base level that is described in this book but we were a small facility located in the San Francisco East Bay Area in the 'burbs.
That being said, I think that there is a lot of humor, entertainment and enlightenment value to the book for interns/residents and attendings and the general public who should understand that doctors are human beings. They are not "God-like" and they become just as "irreverent" within their professions as Policemen, Teachers....er...Politicians do.
I have read and re-read this book at least twice and I consider myself a fan of doctors in general.
A fun read. Enjoy.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: fantastic
Review: definitely, the best best best book i have ever read! amazing medical humor and sad truth about medicine - i was laughing loud and some tears escaped too :)
im reading this book again, again and again - i can quote any time any line. i adore this book, as im medic.student.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Classic hospital satire
Review: I've read this book 2 1/2 times now. The first time I only got through half - I was a premed and being a liberal feminist I was offended by the treatment of women. The second time I read it all the way through - I was a first year med student and after ignoring the sexist stuff it was a very funny read - but not all of it was accessible to me with my limited medical knowledge at the time. The third read was recently as a 4th year student. Even more hilarious now that I've been through the experience of the wards. Highly recommended!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Indeed, a classic...
Review: I read this book years ago, but I still use references from it today with friends and medical colleagues. I even now have a faculty job at one of the referenced hallowed institutions. It's hilarious, focally outrageous, and somewhat self-serving, but it did have some salient, useful insight. Now I want to read it again.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Scatological. Searing. Hilarious.....Brilliant
Review: I was somewhat apprehensive when my uncle, a surgeon, suggested I read this, that, in fact, this is what life is like for a medical intern. From the first page forward, I couldn't put it down. Samuel Shem's caustic, witty, and throughly penetrating writing style had me in stiches for most every day during that week over the summer that I read this. As he described the main character's time in the cardiac ward with the cardiologist who "ran for fitness, fished for calm" I thought back to all the cardiologists I knew and said "THAT's It!" they ARE all like this. This eerie must- have- gone -through -this -to -write -with -this- kind- of -realism pervades the book. Everything has the taste of authenticity. The reader laughs about "buffing and turfing" patents to other wards, and "being a wall" in the ER as opposed to the most despicable "seive."
In short, I loved this book. A truly masterful attempt at capturing the hellacious world of the medical intern and the transformation from college student with only theoretical textbook information to doctor with real world experience.