The House of God at 40: The Characters Speak

On December 6, 2018, NYU Langone Health hosted a series of panel discussions to honor the 40th anniversary of the publication of the novel The House of God, written by faculty member Stephen Bergman (pen name Samuel Shem). In this panel, Bergman’s classmates from the Beth Israel Hospital internship class of 1973-1974, on whom the book’s characters were based, joined to discuss the stories and events behind the novel and what the book has meant to them.
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