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Short Description
The medical hierarchy of "The House of God" is like a pyramid - a lot at the bottom and one at the top. Roy Basch, a Rhodes scholar, thinks differently, until he meets Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, or Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet.
Full bibliographic data for The House of God
Title
The House of God
Authors and contributors
By (author) Samuel Shem
Physical properties
Format: Paperback Number of pages: 400 Width: 127 mm Height: 198 mm Thickness: 25 mm Weight: 283 g
Sameul Shem (Stephen Bergman M.D.) graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and earned a Ph.D in physiology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the novels The House of God, Mount Misery and Fine, and seven plays, including, with Janet Surrey, Bill W. and Dr. Bob. He is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Stone Centre, Wellesley College. He lives near Boston with his wife and daughter.
Main description
New jacket reissue.
Review quote
"Great glittering floods of talent rage through this extraordinary novel" Cosmopolitan "A wildly funny, sad, laugh-out-loud, frightening, outrageous, thought-provoking, moving book" Houston Chronicle "Raw, realistic, ribald and randy" -- Richard Gordon, author of Doctor in the House "Catch-22 with stethoscopes" Cosmopolitan
Promotional headline
The House of G.d 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.e year award, or Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet.