Annals Q&A With Dr. Stephen Bergman

Forty years ago, Stephen Bergman, MD, DPhil, took a pen name, Samuel Shem, and published the most influential novel about the American hospital establishment ever written, The House of God. After his intern year at Beth Israel Hospital (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) in Bosto Shem, as he still prefers to be called by his colleagues, went on to practice psychiatry before leaving medicine entirely in the 1990s to focus on what had always been his first love: writing. The author of several novels and a play cowritten with his wife, Janet Surrey, about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W.

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