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THE HOUSE OF GOD - SAMUEL SHEM TASCHENBUCH

By turns heartbreaking  hilarious  and utterly human  The House of God is a mesmerizing and
provocative novel about what it really takes to become a doctor.  "The raunchy  troubling  and
hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon. Singularly compelling…brutally honest."-The
New York Times  Struggling with grueling hours and sudden life-and-death responsibilities 
Basch and his colleagues  under the leadership of their rule-breaking senior resident known
only as the Fat Man  must learn not only how to be fine doctors but  eventually  good human
beings.   A phenomenon ever since it was published  The House of God was the first unvarnished
unglorified  and uncensored portrait of what training to become a doctor is truly like  in all
its terror  exhaustion and black comedy. With more than two million copies sold worldwide  it
has been hailed as one of the most important medical novels ever written.  With an introduction
by John Updike

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