Fixing Healthcare December 13, 2019
Stephen Bergman, who goes by the pseudonym Samuel Shem, took the medical and literary worlds by storm in 1978 when he published his provocative satire “The House of God,” based on his clinical internship at the Beth Israel Hospital, a teaching facility associated with Harvard Medical School in Boston.
The cult novel, which the New York Times described as “raunchy, troubling and hilarious,” sold over 2 million copies and served as the backdrop for Shem’s latest work “Man’s Fourth Best Hospital.” Set in a nearby institution, Massachusetts General Hospital, now 40 years later, Shem pulls us into the present, taking a critical look at the failures of American medicine today.
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