Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Samuel Shem

Born: 1944 (age 81)
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)