ISBN Man's 4th Best Hospital book English Paperback 384 pages

The sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimedThe House of God

Years after the events ofThe House of God, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man’s4thBest 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.

Samuel Shem is a novelist, playwright, activist, Professor in Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine, and Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. His novels include The House of God, Fine, Mount Misery, In the Heart of the Universe, and…