Samuel Shem is the author of the House of God and Man's 4th Best Hospital.
An excerpt from Man’s 4th Best Hospital, Now available in paperback from Penguin/Berkley.
And in the Fat Man Clinic, what about billing?
We would do it ourselves on our screens. Using HEAL, the EHR or Electronic ‘Health’ Record system that BUDDIES had installed in Man’s 4th Best and its ...
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Years and years ago, I wrote a novel called The House of God, based largely on my experiences as an intern at what was then known as Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. At its core, the book was about the injustice in medical training.
A lot has changed in medicine in the ensuing 40-plus years, not all of it for the good. In fact, all of us — doctors, nurses, patients, hospitals ...
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An excerpt from Man's 4th Best Hospital.
“Why am I here?” the Fat Man was saying to us, his team gathered for the first time around in his new public clinic leaning up against one of the soaring buildings of Man’s 4th. “And why are you? One ...
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