The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital
by Samuel Shem
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Author: Samuel ShemEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07-01
ISBN: 0385337388
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Dell
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Summary: 5 Stars
I first read this when it had just come out. I had been living in Canada and had just returned to the States and to the American Medical Business.
I was shocked, distressed, disgusted at what I read. Yet, as I knew many first year residents in hospitals at the same time I read this book, I knew how true it was.
I was thoroughly disgusted with the field that exploited its med students (and especially its residents and young physicians, at the great life-and-often-death expense of patients, just so hospitals and attending physicians can enrich themselves.
No wonder the author became a psychiatrist after writing this book.
Sad to say, much of what went on then still stands.
However, some limits on the number of hours residents can work have been placed, due to obvious patient safety.
Much as I love certain things about this country, out-of-control capitalism is not one of them.
And the medical business, like all other industries in this countries, is a prime example of out-of-control capitalism.
Great reading. And a must for patients. Patients should be as informed as possible about the medical industry and its doctors: what they do, what they don't do, what they can and cannot do, what they know and tell us they know.
I always empathize with residents who are over-worked and over-tired, and wonder how many of them survive those years.
Summary 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.
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