43 min
A life of writing and medicine with Samuel Shem The Balanced Medics' Handover Podcast
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Dr Stephen Bergman AKA Samuel Shem, author of famed ‘The House of God’, is on to talk his new book.
‘Our Hospital’ is the final book in Shem’s Healing Quartet, about the COVID-19 pandemic and money-driven bureaucracy in medicine.
It was fun to speak with Shem to hear about his colourful life & provocative books.
‘The House of God’ is a satirical novel, exposing the dark side of medicine training. It’s often said that ‘The House of God’ did for the art of medicine what ‘Catch-22’ did for the art of war.
We discuss:
- Shem’s reason for going into medicine (Harvard Med OR conscription to the Vietnam War)
- Why Shem got into writing (and how he got F for writing in Harvard & didn’t write for 4 years after that)
- ‘The House of God’
- His new book ‘Our Hospital’
- Shem’s hope for the future of medicine & healthcare workers
- The importance of sticking together and human connection
Get Shem's new book here.
Dr Stephen Bergman AKA Samuel Shem, author of famed ‘The House of God’, is on to talk his new book.
‘Our Hospital’ is the final book in Shem’s Healing Quartet, about the COVID-19 pandemic and money-driven bureaucracy in medicine.
It was fun to speak with Shem to hear about his colourful life & provocative books.
‘The House of God’ is a satirical novel, exposing the dark side of medicine training. It’s often said that ‘The House of God’ did for the art of medicine what ‘Catch-22’ did for the art of war.
We discuss:
- Shem’s reason for going into medicine (Harvard Med OR conscription to the Vietnam War)
- Why Shem got into writing (and how he got F for writing in Harvard & didn’t write for 4 years after that)
- ‘The House of God’
- His new book ‘Our Hospital’
- Shem’s hope for the future of medicine & healthcare workers
- The importance of sticking together and human connection
Get Shem's new book here.
43 min