Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. Graduating from medical school in 1978, I started my hellish internship ...

This poignant tale from Shem (The House of God) introduces Xiao Lu, a Chinese woman who lived in Communist China during the 1990s, when the "One Child" policy dictated that second-born daughters had ...

In the late 1970s, Samuel Shem penned a groundbreaking satire, “The House of God,” exposing the growing dehumanization of the system for training doctors. It alienated Shem (real name Dr. Stephen ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Forty-one years after the publication of Shem’s cult medical novel, The House of God, the doctor has written a sequel, Man’s 4th Best Hospital (Berkley, Nov.; reviewed on p. 85). Why a sequel now? I ...

Samuel Shem, M.D., is the author of the novels The House of God and Man’s 4 th Best Hospital.Wendy Dean, M.D., is co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare.Simon Talbot, M.D., is Associate Professor of ...

“I am in recovery from having been a psychiatrist,” said Samuel Shem — the pen name adopted by Stephen Bergman back when he was an intern at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital and writing his first novel, ...