
The New York Times highlights what makes “The House of God” so compelling, and the reasons why it is still so widely discussed.
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Samuel Shem reflects on what he calls a 35-year odyssey of speaking out, around the world, about resisting the inhumanity of medical training.
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In an interview with Dr. Bergman he reflects on how and why he wrote it — and what he thinks of medical training today.
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In this lecture, Dr. Bergman speaks of the genesis of his novel, his time in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and explains and reads passages from his bestselling book. He also highlights the healing power of connection, and how dangerous isolation and self-centeredness can be for a human being.
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Dr. Stephen Bergman gives an talk entitled ‘How to Stay Human in Medicine”
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Samuel Shem writes about the methods he and his colleges uses to actively resist “the inhumanity we were immersed in.” Reflecting on the origins of his book and the uproar that it caused.
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