SAMUEL SHEM
Samuel has been described in the press as "Easily the finest and most important writer ever to focus on the lives of doctors and the world of medicine", and "He brings mercy to the practice of medicine." The Lancet called The House of God, "One of the two most significant medical novels of the 20th century"—it has sold over two million copies. Its sequel, Mount Misery, reviewed as "another medical classic," is about training to be a psychiatrist.
His 2008 novel, The Spirit Of The Place, is about a primary care doctor in a small American town, received raved reviews haled as "the perfect bookend to The House of God". It won two National Best Novel of the Year Awards in the USA. His latest novel, At The Heart of The Universe, is set to be another best seller.
As a playwright with his wife Janet Surrey, he wrote the award-winning Off Broadway hit play Bill W. And Dr. Bob, about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous—which premiered in Sydney in 2008 with sold-out performances
With his wife, Samuel published the nonfiction book We Have To Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men, and together in 2015 co-wrote, The Buddha's Wife: The Path Of Awakening Together. Samuel and Janet are collaborating together once again to introduce "The Connection Model" to the 47,000 person NYU Medical Center to improve patient satisfaction and doctor-patient-administrator interactions in health care.
Samuel has written a noted article on Fiction as Resistance (Annals of Internal Medicine), has given over fifty commencement speeches on "Staying Human in Medicine," and has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.
In blurbs for his novels Samuel has been hailed as "the comic genius and the holy terror of medicine," "Rabelaisian," and "the raucous and insightful physician of the soul."
Samuel lives with his wife and daughter in Boston and Tierra Tranquila, Costa Rica.
Samuel has been described in the press as "Easily the finest and most important writer ever to focus on the lives of doctors and the world of medicine", and "He brings mercy to the practice of medicine." The Lancet called The House of God, "One of the two most significant medical novels of the 20th century"—it has sold over two million copies. Its sequel, Mount Misery, reviewed as "another medical classic," is about training to be a psychiatrist.
His 2008 novel, The Spirit Of The Place, is about a primary care doctor in a small American town, received raved reviews haled as "the perfect bookend to The House of God". It won two National Best Novel of the Year Awards in the USA. His latest novel, At The Heart of The Universe, is set to be another best seller.
As a playwright with his wife Janet Surrey, he wrote the award-winning Off Broadway hit play Bill W. And Dr. Bob, about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous—which premiered in Sydney in 2008 with sold-out performances
With his wife, Samuel published the nonfiction book We Have To Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men, and together in 2015 co-wrote, The Buddha's Wife: The Path Of Awakening Together. Samuel and Janet are collaborating together once again to introduce "The Connection Model" to the 47,000 person NYU Medical Center to improve patient satisfaction and doctor-patient-administrator interactions in health care.
Samuel has written a noted article on Fiction as Resistance (Annals of Internal Medicine), has given over fifty commencement speeches on "Staying Human in Medicine," and has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.
In blurbs for his novels Samuel has been hailed as "the comic genius and the holy terror of medicine," "Rabelaisian," and "the raucous and insightful physician of the soul."
Samuel lives with his wife and daughter in Boston and Tierra Tranquila, Costa Rica.
