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Title: The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital by Samuel Shem ISBN: 0-385-33738-8 Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (92 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: If it would only be this way
Comment: As a second year medical student whose assignment it was to read this book, I had mixed feelings. Because of all of the other coursework, I was not very excited about the prospects of filling my time with more reading. I was pleasantly surprised, however, when I found myself unable to stop reading, constantly wondering what was going to happen next. Although there are some pretty "racy" scenes, to say the least, I thought they were a well thought out portion of the book. What I did take, however, was the humanness that each of these characters carried with them throughout the book. Without giving too much away, I saw the pain, the sorrow, the humility and anguish that goes into the medical profession on a daily basis. We as future physicians are going to have to deal with a lot of "stuff" as we go along, this book gave us a small, entertaining glance at what that may hold.
I recommend this book to all readers, preferably for the at least PG-13 and up. This book will be entertaining and educational for the medical and non-medically inclined. You won't get bogged down by medical jargon and lingo. Just sit back and enjoy. Learn what "TURF'ing" is.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hilarious and Slightly Disturbing
Comment: Samuel Shem's wacky story of six brilliant interns is both laugh out loud funny, and poignant at the same time. Written in the seventies it almost became required reading for medical students, with many of them adopting the vocabulary used in the book. The constant high stress is sometimes only relieved by the erotic couplings of the nurses and interns, but the effects and demands of the hospital takes it's toll on each of the characters with very different results.The book definitely took some turns I didn't expect, and all in all I found this a really satisfying read.
Rating: 3
Summary: That's the Way It Was
Comment: 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.
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Title: Mount Misery by Samuel Shem ISBN: 0804115559 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Intern Blues : The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor by Robert Marion ISBN: 0060937092 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: First, Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin ISBN: 044922290X Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Kill As Few Patients As Possible by Oscar London ISBN: 089815197X Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As a Medical Student by Perri Klass ISBN: 0452272580 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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