Aug 18, 2012
The classical medical parody The House of God by Samuel Shem (AKA psychiatrist Stephen Bergman) has been a must read for medical students and residents since its publication in 1978. The August 2012 Let Magic Happen newsletter has more details about The House of God and the somewhat darker and not quite as funny sequel, Mount Misery, another parody chronicling Basch’s psychiatric residency. The Laws of The House of God are listed below and explained in the accompanying 9 minute video.
The first 8 of the 13 Laws of The House of God are attributed to the legendary Fat Man, the resident who is the only voice of sanity during Roy Basch’s tumultuous internship. The Laws are introduced in ALL CAPS in sequential order in the book with the last 5 apparently being made up by Basch himself.
The Laws of The House of God
I: Gomers don’t die.
II: Gomers go to ground.
III: At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse.
IV: The patient is the one with the disease.
V: Placement comes first.
VI: There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a #14 needle and a good strong arm.
VII: Age + BUN = Lasix dose.
VIII: They can always hurt you more.
X: If you don’t take a temperature, you can’t find a fever.
IX: The only good admission is a dead admission.
XI: Show me a BMS who only triples my work and I will kiss his feet.
XII: If the radiology resident and the BMS both see a lesion on the chest X ray, there can be no lesion there.
XIII: The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.
Aug 04, 2024
POSTED BY Larry Burk
For the past 23 years we have been under a mass hypnotic spell of terror beginning on 9/11/2001 and deepened during the past 4 years of the pandemic. It is time to awaken and take our power back from the predictive programming that is forecasting a dismal future. From the framework of propaganda pioneered by Sigmund Freud’s nephew, marketing mogul Edward L. Bernays of Madison Avenue fame, we can explore how the puppeteers of the invisible government are using the media to manufacture consent and compliance among the general population of the world. Read the rest of the Wake Up from the Trance of Fear blog.
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