Quote of the day
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Samuel Shem
Born: 1944 (age 80)
Bio: Samuel Shem is the pen-name of the American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman. His main works are The House of God and Mount Misery, both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States.
Known for:
- The House of God (1978)
- Mount Misery (1997)
- The spirit of the place (2008)
- We have to talk (1998)