Book description
In this sequel to The House of God and Man's 4th Best Hospital, Dr. Roy Basch returns to his economically depressed hometown in upstate New York to help the struggling hospital battle the COVID-19 pandemic and the money-driven bureaucracy.
After the tragic climax of Man's 4th Best Hospital, four doctors…
Why read it?
1 author picked Our Hospital as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In Shem's most recent sequel to House of God, Dr. Roy Basch and the gang converge on a small town in upstate New York to battle the Covid-19 pandemic, hospital administrators, and willful ignorance. The book is as much inspiration as a story.
I read House of God as a medical student and Our Hospital after working through the pandemic. This book brought me back to all the heartbreak and heroism we all endured. Ultimately, Shem does what he does best: putting the human back into medicine.
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