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Ladataan... The House of God (1978)Tekijä: Samuel Shem
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Roy Basch, el narrador y protagonista, y sus compañeros: Chuck, un negro que siempre lleva en su maletín una petaca de whisky; Runt, judío y muy psicoanalizado, y Potts, un emigrado del sur son brillantes licenciados de las mejores facultades de medicina, que han conseguido ser aceptados para hacer su año de prácticas en uno de los más prestigiosos hospitales, la Casa de Dios. Y en este año, que muy pronto se parecerá a la versión de una obra del marqués de Sade por los hermanos Marx, se multiplican los episodios de aprendizaje de la medicina pero también del horror, la impostura, el cientificismo más cruel e ineficaz y, sobre todo, de lo ineludible de la enfermedad y la muerte. Loved the humor, over the top and with a lot of personality. (Often crude.) Shem clearly had fun writing this. The story lacks momentum, so it was easy to put down. But overall, the unique setting and attitude made the novel worth reading. >‘In New York once,’ said Fats, ‘we had a contest to see how long the medical service could go without an admission. Thirty-seven hours. You shoulda seen what we sent outta there. Roy, help them. Be a WALL.’ Shem's fictionalized memoir, recounting his year as an intern in a major Boston hospital, is by turns dark and depressing and cynical and ribald and wildly funny. Set against the final days of Richard Nixon's presidency, the disintegration of a formerly powerful man is reflected in the increasingly fractured and disintegrating medical intern training system of the day. Urged to "do everything possible for every patient, every time", Shem's Roy Basch and his fellow internal medicine interns are faced with aging patients whose lives can be extended, but not improved, by the medical procedures the system (and their superiors) insist they perform. And while the elderly and often demented patients are not permitted the final rest they seek (to the extent that they are capable of seeking anything), Basch's younger patients have a horrifying tendency to expire, either from the underlying conditions that brought them to the hospital or from botched treatments that harmed instead of helped. Battling an increasingly heavy burden of despair, Basch tries everything from long-distance running to wild bouts of casual sex to utter withdrawal from emotional involvement, with varying levels of success. He's not alone on his journey, as the novel is also filled with sharp and involving characters, including two of the most unlikely cops ever to appear on the printed page. How he survives the year and begins the healing that will ultimately save him, makes an often fascinating, often troublesome, always compelling read. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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HTML:By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about what it really takes to become a doctor. ??The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon. Singularly compelling?brutally honest.???The New York Times Struggling with grueling hours and sudden life-and-death responsibilities, Basch and his colleagues, under the leadership of their rule-breaking senior resident known only as the Fat Man, must learn not only how to be fine doctors but, eventually, good human beings. A phenomenon ever since it was published, The House of God was the first unvarnished, unglorified, and uncensored portrait of what training to become a doctor is truly like, in all its terror, exhaustion and black comedy. With more than two million copies sold worldwide, it has been hailed as one of the most important medical novels ever written. With an introduction by John Updik Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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