House Of God

book by Samuel Shem about hospital 1st-year residents - ISBN:0440133688

• cf medical school, healthcare

it is the book's humor around sacrosanct medical phenomena that evokes strong responses in readers

the rules

• at a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse
• if you don't take a temperature, you can't find a fever
• the patient is the one with the disease
• they can always hurt you more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_God

led to sequel Mount Misery about psych work - see Samuel Shem page.

• then 3rd book Man's 4th Best Hospital

related: Michael Wolff on the Morality of keeping his mother alive too long