Special - House of God

Jonathan, Chris, and special guest Nicholas Koziris discuss the popular novel House of God by Samuel Shem, a thinly veiled fictional account of Shem’s year as a medical intern at a major hospital in Boston, published in 1978. They discuss despair, suicide, and doctors lusting after busty nurses. But they mostly look at how much medicine has (or hasn’t) changed in the past 50 years. This episode contains adult themes and language.

 

The book: https://bit.ly/2W6tEbI

 

0:00 First impressions

8:19 Women

17:42 Patients

26:00 Laws of the House of God

36:51 Buff and Turf

41:15 House of God: The Movie

45:43 Compassion and judgment in healthcare

55:30 House of God vs. Scrubs (vs. ER)

1:01:00 Parting thoughts and lots of dead bodies

 

 

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Music Credits

 

Theme music: "Troll of the Mountain Swing" by the Underscore Orkestra.

 

Expressive Blockbuster  by Rafael Krux

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5349-expressive-blockbuster-

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

Dantes Dream by MusicParadise

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5061-dantes-dream

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4342-shades-of-spring

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

Chromatic Fantasia (Bach BWV 930) by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3504-chromatic-fantasia-bach-bwv-930-

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

Raindrops  by Rafael Krux

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5590-raindrops-

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/