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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #78 – “Writing in Resistance” to Humanize Healthcare – with Dr. Sam Shem
Description: Dear Friends & Colleagues,
Our guest this week is Samuel Shem. Many of you will immediately recognize the pseudonym for the author of the classic piece of medical fiction – The House of God.
I grew up in healthcare reading his book over and over again. For those of you who are unfamiliar with that piece of fiction, I would urge you to read it. It is a brutally honest, true-to-life, incredibly humorous depiction of the unjust abuses of medical training in one of the most prestigious and prototypical internship/residency programs in our country. It is also...