Leaving The House of God

To paraphrase Fat Man’s Law Number Three, “At a code, the first pulse you take is your own.”

Enduring advice, as true today as it was in the early ’70s when Roy G. Basch, MD, and his gang of hapless interns roamed the airless wards of The House of God, the mythical hospital in the infamous novel by Samuel Shem, although almost everything else about practicing medicine seems …

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