Man's 4th Best Hospital
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  • Published: 19 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780593097786
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $36.00

Man's 4th Best Hospital

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12 Nov 2019
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12 Nov 2019
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19 Jan 2021
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The sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed The House of God

The sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed The House of God

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 some 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.
  • Published: 19 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780593097786
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $36.00
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Praise for The House of God

"The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon. Singularly compelling...brutally honest."--The New York Times

"Bawdy, blistering...this is Catch-22 with stethoscopes."--Cosmopolitan

"Wonderfully wild, ribald, erotic, bitter, compassionate...in the same spirit as Catch-22."--The Seattle Times

"A wildly funny, sad, laugh-out-loud, frightening, outrageous, thought-provoking, moving book...a story of modern medicine rarely, if ever, told."--Houston Chronicle

"Does for the practice of medicine what Catch-22 and M*A*S*H did for the practice of warfare."--The Newark Star-Ledger

"Mordantly funny, brilliantly ironic...a writer of outstanding substance and style."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)