Samuel Shem

From the author of 'The House of God' comes a novel about an expatriate doctor called home to Columbia, New York following the death of his mother. As he reacquaints himself with the place, he learns what it means to be a healer, and to be healed.

Een arts in een psychiatrische kliniek raakt in verwarring omdat de verschillende afdelingen heel verschillende werkmethoden hebben.

Combinando su experiencia como médico y su enorme talento para la más negra comedia del absurdo, Samuel Shem ha escrito un libro catártico, la crónica de la entrada en la vida de quienes de algún modo han elegido trabajar con la muerte. Roy Bash, el narrador y protagonista, y sus compañeros -Chuck, un negro que siempre lleva en su maletín una petaca de whisky; Runt, judío y muy psicoanalizado, y Potts, un emigrado del sur -son brillantes licenciados de las mejores facultades de medicina, que han conseguido ser aceptados para hacer su año de prácticas en uno de los más prestigiosos hospitales.

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.

The resident known as The Fat Man and his eccentric band of interns scattered to the four corners of the country. Today Fats, now rich and famous, has been lured across town to the House of God's WASPy rival, Man's Best Hospital. But the august institution has sunk from being ranked the best hospital in the country to an embarrassing, and unacceptable, 4th! Fats' mission? To help the hospital climb back up the rankings... while pursuing his own agenda. At his new Future of Medicine Clinic, the team comes back together with a daunting goal: "To put the human back into healthcare." -- adapted from jacket