The latest novel from Shem (The House of God) is the funny and wrenching account of Dr. Orville Rose's return to his hometown, Columbia, N.Y., after the death of his mother in 1983. Orville's mother's ...

HUDSON — Sequel to the worldwide bestseller “The House of God” and follow up to “The Spirit of the Place” and “Man’s 4th Best Hospital”, the book takes place in the fictional upstate town of Columbia, ...

Samuel Shem's 1978 novel, The House of God, was a sardonic look at U.S. medicine through a young doctor's eyes. Shem's new fiction checks in with... "Don't read The House of God," one of my professors ...

"Don't read The House of God," one of my professors told me in my first year of medical school. He was talking about Samuel Shem's 1978 novel about medical residency, an infamous book whose legacy ...