The House of God
First published 1978
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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 'red-hot' Rhodes Scholar, thought differently - but then he hadn't met Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, nor Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet. He hadn't even met any of the Gomers ('Get Out of My Emergency Room!'
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), the no-hopers who wanted to die but who were worth more alive... 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.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Samuel Shem
- First published
- 1978
- Edition
- House of God, The
- Publisher
- Dell
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780440296089