The House of God
Author: Samuel Shem
As in all hospitals, the medical hierarchy of The House of God was a pyramid – a lot at the bottom and one at the top.Put another way it was like an ice-cream cone…you had to lick your way up!,,Roy Basch, the ‘red-hot’ Rhodes Scholar, thought differently – but then he hadn’t met Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, nor Molly, the nurse with the….Read More
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