Description
By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative journey that takes us into the lives of Roy Basch and five of his fellow interns at the most renowned teaching hospital in the country. Young Dr. Basch and his irreverent confidant, known only as the Fat Man, will learn not only how to be fine doctors but, eventually, good human beings. Samuel Shem has done what few in American medicine have dared to do - create an unvarnished, unglorified, and amazingly forthright portrait revealing the depth of caring, pain, pathos, and tragedy felt by all who spend their lives treating patients and stand at the crossroads between science and humanity.
Info
ISBN: 9780425238097
Published Date: January 1, 2010
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Language: English
Page Count: 380
Size: 8.29" l x 5.47" w x 1.11" h
Category
Fiction
Subject
Contemporary