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THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE, by Samuel Shem (a.k.a. Stephen Bergman, Massachusetts and Balliol, ’66) Kent State University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Jim O’Toole, The American
Oxonian (California and Hertford, ’66)
At one time or another in that long and often tortuous journey of human growth that we hope ends in wisdom, almost all of us feel compelled [...]
Samuel Shem’s classic novel about medical internship, THE HOUSE OF GOD (1978), was named by the British medical journal The Lancet as one of the two most important American medical novels of the 20th century, the other being Sinclair Lewis’ ARROWSMITH.
Read John Updike’s new introduction below:
“We expect the world of doctors. Out [...]
By Steve Love
The Spirit of the Place contains everything – and more – that author Samuel Shem became (in)famous for delivering in The House of God, his hilarious (unless you’ve ever had to visit a doctor), iconic novel about medical education and the healthcare it underpins.
There is sex and love, disease and [...]
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 3:59 PM
To: Stephen Bergman
Subject: a master’s class and “The Spirit of the Place”
Dear Steve,
I have just finished teaching a Master’s class where we had a wonderful time. The work for today was “The Spirit of the Place.” All these students had read “The House of God” first. [...]
By Laura Marshall, Special to The Berkshire Eagle
Sunday, August 17
“The Spirit of the Place, “by Samuel Shem
Kent State University Press, 334 pages
When Orville Rose was a 6-year-old kid back in Columbia, N.Y., he had an epiphany: He was connected to something larger than himself. It was something to do with the clouds floating by overhead; [...]
The Spirit of the Place
By Lorrie Klosterman and illustrations by Annie Internicola, July 29, 2008
It is with three decades experience as a doctor and a penchant for storytelling that Stephen Bergman, MD, PhD (pen name, Samuel Shem), writes with wit and heart about both sides of the doctor/patient relationship. His highly acclaimed first book, The [...]
Shem,
It’s getting close to midnight and I just finished your novel. I figure you are in Costa Rica, but will get this when you return.
Let me say at once it is the most emotionally daring novel I know. It dances out where no one else is willing to go. And it is very moving to [...]
By Steve Love
The Spirit of the Place contains everything – and more – that author Samuel Shem became (in)famous for delivering in The House of God, his hilarious (unless you’ve ever had to visit a doctor), iconic novel about medical education and the healthcare it underpins.
There is sex and love, disease and death, laughs and exploding [...]
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 3:59 PM
To: Stephen Bergman
Subject: a master’s class and “The Spirit of the Place”
Dear Steve,
I have just finished teaching a Master’s class where we had a wonderful time. The work for today was “The Spirit of the Place.” All these students had read “The House of God” first. They really loved talking [...]
By Laura Marshall, Special to The Berkshire Eagle
Sunday, August 17
“The Spirit of the Place, “by Samuel Shem
Kent State University Press, 334 pages
When Orville Rose was a 6-year-old kid back in Columbia, N.Y., he had an epiphany: He was connected to something larger than himself. It was something to do with the clouds floating by overhead; as [...]