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Six eager interns, each from the top of their medical school class, envision themselves modern saviors-to-be, but now in their positions as the bottom of the hospital staff they'll earn their stripes serving a year in the time-honored tradition of being an intern with only their all-knowing resident to sustain them in their struggle . . .
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. Hailed as one of the most important medical novel ever written, this edition includes an introduction from bestselling author John Updike.
"The House of God is a wildly funny, sad, laugh-out-loud, frightening, outrageous, thought-provoking, moving story of modern medicine." -- Houston Chronicle