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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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