Samuel Shem

The House of God is a satirical novel by Samuel Shem, published in 1978. It portrays the psychological harm done to medical interns during the course of medical internship in the early 1970s.

The sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed The House of GodYears after the events of The House of God, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital, and has persuaded Dr. Roy Basch and some of his intern cohorts to join him to teach a …