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Kush Kare Hospital, a flagship for-profit institution, grapples with overwhelming COVID chaos as Dr. Amy Rose strives to provide care under the weight of personal protective equipment, while recruiting doctors to combat the crisis.

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

I believe that authentic connection is the most powerful antidote to the suffering inherent in the human condition, and the place we damaged doctors need to start to heal our broken hearts.

Forty-two years ago, when I had finally finished the seven revisions of my first novel, The House of God, my editor said, “Why don’t you add a glossary and a list of The Laws of the House of God.”  Writing the Laws, I hardly needed to refer to the text; they just flowed out. The Laws became common parlance, not only tacked up in on-call rooms but even, recently, listed on a T-shirt for sale. Medicine has changed drastically, but the House Laws are still here. The Laws of The House of God...

Nick Hopkinson: Man’s 4th Best Hospital—a powerful reminder of the moral hazards that await if we don’t look out for each other December 10, 2020 My copy of The House of God, Samuel Shem’s 1978 novel of medical training, disillusion, and resistance, has a quote from Cosmopolitan on the cover; a “bawdy cult classic—Catch-22 with stethoscopes.” Given the critical reception that Closing Time, Joseph Heller’s 30-year on sequel to Catch 22 received, is this a hostage to fortune for ...