The House of God

Written by a psychiatrist, Stephen Bergman, under the pseudonym Samuel Shem, M.D., The House of God  is based on the grueling, often dehumanizing experiences of an intern at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Hospital in 1974. More than two million copies have been sold, and the book has been continuously in print since its 1978 publication. A recent edition (Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2003) features an introduction by John Updike, who ranks the book alongside Joseph Heller’s famed military satire, “Catch-22."

Since its publication, everything has changed and everything is the way it was.  A fine article about House of God appeared in the NY Times, August 18, 2009: Download House of God