Stay human in medicine: Lessons from The House of God
In 1978, under the pseudonym Samuel Shem, psychiatrist Stephen Bergman published “The House of God,” an iconic novel drawn from his medical internship in Boston in the early 1970s. Earlier this year, Dr. Bergman spoke at the commencement of the New York University School of Medicine. With his permission, the following is adapted from those remarks.
I began writing The House of God as a catharsis, to make sense of what seemed like the worst year of my life.
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