Book: Man's 4th Best Hospital
Author: Samuel Shem
Pages: 384
This is my 129th read for the year
Here is what Amazon has to say:
Years after the events of The House of God, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital, and has persuaded Dr. Roy Basch and soe of his intern cohorts to join him to teach a new generation of interns and residents. In a medical landscape dominated by computer screens and corrupted by money, they have one goal: to make medicine humane again. What follows is a mesmerizing, heartbreaking, and hilarious exploration of how the health-care industry, and especially doctors, have evolved over the past thirty years.
This was a fine book. I tried to read House of God after finding this book at a used bookstore, but I could not get into it. I figured this one would be fine without reading the first and it was. This one spends a lot of time talking about the evolvement of the electronic medical record and how medicine is getting more and more impersonal. The characters from House of God apparently showed what was wrong with medical training and this one was to show what happens when business gets in the way of good medical care.
Stars: 3
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