Samuel Shem

House of God

1 - The House of God (1978)
2 - Man's 4th Best Hospital (Nov-2019)

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  The House of God
  

  • 1978
  • / Medical Thriller
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  House of God - 1
  

  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...

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  Fine
  

  • Feb-1985
  • / General Fiction
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  With the same brilliant meld of zany humor, human emotion, and high truth that made his first novel, The House of God, a medical classic, Samuel Shem, himself a psychiatrist, plunges headlong into the world of contemporary psychoanalysis, bringing to...

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  Mount Misery
  

  • Feb-1997
  • / Suspense
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  From the Laws of Mount Misery:There are no laws in psychiatry.Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Mount Misery i...

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  The Spirit of the Place
  

  • Jun-2008
  • / General Fiction
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  Samuel Shem's classic novel about medical internship, The House of God, is required reading in medical schools throughout the world and is celebrated for its authentic description of medical training and practice, for its Rabelaisian comedy, and for ...

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  At the Heart of the Universe
  

  • May-2016
  • / General Fiction
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  The story of two mothers and a father in love with the same daughter, Samuel Shem's At the Heart of the Universe is an epic novel set deep in rural China against the backdrop of an ancient mountain monastery during the time of the one-child-per-...

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  Man's 4th Best Hospital
  

  • Nov-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  House of God - 2
  

  Years after the events of The House of God, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital, and has persuaded Dr. Roy Basch and some of his intern cohorts to join him to teac...

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  Our Hospital
  

  • Jul-2023
  • / General Fiction
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  In this sequel to The House of God and Man's 4th Best Hospital, Dr. Roy Basch returns to his economically depressed hometown in upstate New York to help the struggling hospital battle the COVID-19 pandemic and the money-driven bureaucracy.After the t...

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