“I am in recovery from having been a psychiatrist,” said Samuel Shem — the pen name adopted by Stephen Bergman back when he was an intern at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital and writing his first novel, ...

This poignant tale from Shem (The House of God) introduces Xiao Lu, a Chinese woman who lived in Communist China during the 1990s, when the "One Child" policy dictated that second-born daughters had ...

Are there many books that continue to be sharply relevant some 40 years after publication? Not many I suspect. But one that manages to be, in the medical world, is The House Of God, by Samuel Shem. As ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. Graduating from medical school in 1978, I started my hellish internship ...

In August 1978, “Samuel Shem” published “The House of God,” a bawdy, satirical novel based on his experiences as an intern at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. “Shem” is the pen name of now-retired ...

Samuel Shem, M.D., is the author of the novels The House of God and Man’s 4 th Best Hospital.Wendy Dean, M.D., is co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare.Simon Talbot, M.D., is Associate Professor of ...

I'd like to apologize to all my newsroom neighbors for the loud "Yes!" that escaped me earlier this week when I opened a big yellow envelope and pulled out "Man's 4th Best Hospital." But I couldn't ...

In the late 1970s, Samuel Shem penned a groundbreaking satire, “The House of God,” exposing the growing dehumanization of the system for training doctors. It alienated Shem (real name Dr. Stephen ...

Sequels rarely outshine the original. This is true of Samuel Shem’s Man’s 4th Best Hospital, the 40-years later follow-up to The House of God. But, gosh, it comes very close to the brilliance of his ...

HUDSON — Sequel to the worldwide bestseller “The House of God” and follow up to “The Spirit of the Place” and “Man’s 4th Best Hospital”, the book takes place in the fictional upstate town of Columbia, ...

"Don't read The House of God," one of my professors told me in my first year of medical school. He was talking about Samuel Shem's 1978 novel about medical residency, an infamous book whose legacy ...