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The House of God by Samuel Shem · Booklabria

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The House of God

Name: The House of God
Author: Samuel Shem

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First published: 1978
Editions: 19 in 2 languages

Synopsis

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!'), 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 MAS*H, and does for the doctor's art what Catch-22 did for the art of war.

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19 in 2 languages

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English15 German4

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