Books with author Samuel Shem

As in all hospitals, the medical hierarchy of The House of God was a pyramid - a lot at the bottom and one at the top.Put another way it was like an ice-cream cone...you had to lick your way up! Roy Basch, the 'red-hot' Rhodes Scholar, thought differently - but then he hadn't met Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, nor Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet.He hadn't even met any of the Gomers ('Get Out of My Emergency Room!'), the no-hopers who wanted to die but who were worth more alive!

From the Laws of Mount Misery:There are no laws in psychiatry.Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Mount Misery is a prestigious facility set in the rolling green hills of New England, its country club atmosphere maintained by generous corporate contributions. Dr. Roy Basch (hero of The House of God) is lucky enough to train there *only to discover doctors caught up in the circus of competing psychiatric theories, and patients who are often there for one main reason: they've got good insurance.From the Laws of Mount Misery:Your colleagues will hurt you more than your patients.On rounds at Mount Misery, it's not always easy for Basch to tell the patients from the doctors: Errol Cabot, the drug cowboy whose practice provides him with guinea pigs for his imaginative prescription cocktails . . . Blair Heiler, the world expert on borderlines (a diagnosis that applies to just about everybody) . . . A. K. Lowell, née Aliyah K. Lowenschteiner, whose Freudian analytic technique is so razor sharp it prohibits her from actually speaking to patients . . . And Schlomo Dove, the loony, outlandish shrink accused of having sex with a beautiful, well-to-do female patient.From the Laws of Mount Misery:Psychiatrists specialize in their defects. For Basch the practice of psychiatry soon becomes a nightmare in which psychiatrists compete with one another to find the best ways to reduce human beings to blubbering drug-addled pods, or incite them to an extreme where excessive rage is the only rational response, or tie them up in Freudian knots. And all the while, the doctors seem less interested in their patients' mental health than in a host of other things *managed care insurance money, drug company research grants and kickbacks, and their own professional advancement.From the Laws of Mount Misery:In psychiatry, first comes treatment, then comes diagnosis.What The House of God did for doctoring the body, Mount Misery does for doctoring the mind. A practicing psychiatrist, Samuel Shem brings vivid authenticity and extraordinary storytelling gifts to this long-awaited sequel, to create a novel that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, terrifying, and provocative. Filled with biting irony and a wonderful sense of the absurd, Mount Misery tells you everything you'll never learn in therapy. And it's a hell of a lot funnier.From the Hardcover edition.

To the world-famous teaching hospital ("the House of God") come six impassioned interns--each planning to be the savior for whom the medical world waits. One is Roy Basch, Rhodes Scholar and recent graduate of the Best Medical School. His lofty ideals sag as he copes with repugnant day-to-day realities. Dodging hospital politics but enduring endless hours of work and vital responsibility, he works his way through an internship that is bizarre but has at least recognizable particles of truth. "Wonderfully wild, ribald, erotic...in the same spirit as CATCH-22 or M*A*S*H." (Seattle Times) X-rated for ribaldry.

Origiginally published in 1895. PREFACE: THESE Chapters on Electricity, prepared for and included in the Fourth Revised Edition of Olmsteds College Philos- ophy, are here offered in a separate volume. They are intended for use as a text-book by students in those colleges which devote but thirty or forty hours to the subject. The principles presented are those which ought to be known by every liberally educated person. The economy of space necessitated by a clear and thorough presentation within such limits, has required the omission of detailed descriptions of apparatus and of demonstrative experiments. To master these chapters will require more effort on the part of a student than to master an equal number of pages in a more extended treatise. For the same efforts, however, he will obtain a knowledge of a greater number of principles. Furthermore, he will more readily perceive the correlation between different parts of the subject. Even an ordinary comprehension of the subject signifies a knowledge of many of these mutual relations. It has been the desire of the author to present each part of the subject in its most modern dress. This desire, however, has been tempered by a consideration of the intended functions of the book. IN the present edition a few typographical errors have been corrected, and a Course in Electrical Measurements has been added. This course is written in the form of a laboratory manual in which specific directions are given to the student. The experience of the author has shown that such a manual results in a saving of time both to the instructor and the student. The enthusiasm of the student is better maintained when his results are fairly accurate and of frequent occurrence. A meagre laboratory equipment is sufficient for carrying on the course, and the accuracy of the results obtained will depend almost entirely upon the student and the instructor. Contents include: The figure rvvr to the page, PART VII.-ELECTBIC1TY AND MAGNETISM. CHAPTER I. ELECTROSTATICS. POTENTIAL. CAPACITY. Definition Common Indications of Electricity Repulsion, 351 Theories of Electricity Electric Series, 352 Conductors and Insulators Coulombs Law, 353 Potential, 354 Equipotential Surfaces, 355 Difference of Potential Unit of Potential, 356 Zero Potential Potential on a Sphere Capacity, 357 Equipotential of Connected Conductors Position of Static Charge Distribution of a Charge on the Surface, 359 Surface Density QuadrantElectrometer, 360 Problems, 361. CHAPTER II. ELECTROSTATIC INDUCTION. Gold-leaf Electroscope Phenomena, 362 Induction Precedes Attraction, 363 Quantity of the Induced Electricity Condensers, 364 Specific Inductive Capacity, 365 Leyden Jar Seat of the Charge, 367 Residual Charge Modern Theory of Condensers, 368 Hertzs Experiments, 369 Electrical Machines Electrophorus Holtz Machine, 370 Effects of Statical Discharge Lightning, 372. CHAPTER III. MAGNETISM...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... 10. A uniform wire is bent into the form of a square: find the resistance between two opposite corners in terms of the resistance of one of the sides. 11. Twelve incandescent lamps are arranged in.parallel between two electric light leads. The difference of potential between the leads is 99 volts, and each lamp takes a current of 0.75 ampere: what is the equivalent resistance between the leads? Ans. 11 ohms. 12. A battery of 20 ohms resistance is joined up in circuit with a galvanometer of 10 ohms resistance. The galvanometer is then shunted by a wire of the same resistance as its own: compare the currents produced by the battery in the two cases. Ans. C: C = 5: 6. 13. In the preceding example determine the ratio between the currents which flow through the galvanometer before and after it is shunted. 14. How would you arrange a battery of 12 cells, each of 0.6 ohm internal resistance, so as to send the strongest current through an electro-magnet of resistance of 0.7 ohm. 15. In a Wheatstone's bridge (Fig. 356) A = 10 ohms, B = 1,000 ohms, and G = 50 ohms: what is the resistance of D, if the galvanometer shows no current? Ans. 5,000 ohms. CHAPTER VI. ELECTRO-MAGNETISM. 648. The Current's Lines of Magnetic Force.--If a wire, carrying a current of electricity, be passed through a sheet of paper, as indicated in Fig. 359, and if iron filings be sprinkled upon the paper, they will arrange themselves so as to form circles around the wire. If then a short magnetic needle be moved about the wire, it will tend to place itself tangentially to the circle passing through its centre. If the direction of the current be reversed, the needle will turn through 180. The circles of the filings show the paths of magnetic lines of force, which owe their existence to the electr...

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