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The Spirit of the Place (2008)
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Read a Rave Review from Diversion Magazine!
In bookstores now from the National Bestselling Author of THE HOUSE OF GOD
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...
“THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE is a perfect bookend to his classic THE HOUSE OF GOD.” (Diversion Magazine)
“Written with a large heart, a healing touch, wry and wise insight into the human condition.Worthy of the Best of Samuel Shem, which is worthy indeed.”
- James Carroll, National Book Award Winner and author of House of War
“Samuel Shem is easily the finest and most important writer ever to focus on the lives of doctors and the world of medicine.”
-Harvard Club of NY Bulletin
THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE RAVE REVIEWS
August 6, 2009
THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE – Review (Jim O’Toole, The American Oxonian)
August 3, 2009
The Spirit of the Place contains everything – and more
August 3, 2009
“When a class has this much enthusiasm for a book, it bodes well for its future.”
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The farce of dueling psychiatrists
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Golfing with Updike
June 7, 2009
The pitting of doctor against doctor
October 13, 2008
Valor and fear in surgeons
August 5, 2007
A strike for better healthcare
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