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House of God turns 40 - Video

Published on: Sep 24, 2019

With three million copies in print, House of God is one of the most important medical novels ever written. The New York Times called the book “a cult phenomenon. . . . Singularly compelling…brutally honest,” A new video from JAMA Network tells the backstory of the writing of this classic.

JAMA has published two articles about The House of God which you can read here:

Basch Unbound—The House of God and Fiction as Resistance at 40

The House of God at Age 40—An Appreciation