The Dehumanization Of Medical Education By Samuel Shem

“It was all so easy and it was all so damn fun….it wasn’t easy and it was not fun (Shem, p.143).” After graduating from medical school, students advance on into the medical field with an aspiration of the field itself being similar to what was described to them in medical school. Some students say that their years in medical school were easy, but soon came to the realization that what they’ve believed to be the best approaches in treatment are challenged as they enter their medical training. During medical training, interns are taught to follow the rules and regulations of the hospital when dealing with each patient and their specific illnesses. What they learned in medical school throughout the years, was not considered to be the best approach in the medical institution. They are manipulated into believing and conforming to the overrun healthcare system, which ultimately dehumanizes them as well as their patients. This leaves interns to find their own coping mechanisms when handling varied cases, which not only emotionally affects their …show more content…
Samuel Shem was able to express the significance of dehumanization within medical training and how it internally affects both the intern and their patients. The House of God was able to reach out to several different medial institutions across the nation improving the ways interns are being treated in hospitals. This novel became a therapeutic book to most doctors who were withstanding the brutality of their training. Finding his catharsis in the creation of this novel, Samuel Shem, ultimately influenced the minds of many upcoming medical professionals, giving them a humorous and satiric overview of the medical