The House of God
Ratings14
Average rating3.7
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Ratings14
Average rating3.7
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 M*A*S*H, and does for the doctor's art what Catch-22 did for the art of war.
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It's surprising that a book written decades ago is still SO ACCURATE to what it's like working in medicine. I took a long time reading this because it was too much like being at work sometimes. But, so funny. The Rules are correct. And as a member of the Sociable Cervix, I concur that placement comes first.
Series
1 primary bookHouse of God is a 1-book series first released in 1978 with contributions by Samuel Shem.
