How long does it take to read The House of God?
The House of God by Samuel Shem takes about 7 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 413 pages, about 113,575 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
As in all hospitals, the medical hierarchy of The House of God was a pyramid - a lot at the bottom and one at the top. Put another way, it was like an ice-cream cone...you had to lick your way up!Roy Basch, the 'red-hot' Rhodes Scholar, thought differently - but then he hadn't met Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, nor Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet. He hadn't even met any of the Gomers ('Get Out of My Emergency Room!'), the no-hopers who wanted to die but who were worth more alive...The House of God is a wild and raunchily irreverent novel that teaches you the not-so-gentle arts of healing, and tells you what your doctor never wanted you to know. It is the best medicine since MAS*H, and does for the doctor's art what Catch-22 did for the art of war.
Subjects: Fiction, Hospitals, Interns (Medicine), Internship and Residency, Medical education, Medical students
