Samuel Shem is the pen-name of the United States psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman (1944-). 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 Bergman was a Rhodes Scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford University of Oxford in 1966, and was tutored by Denis Noble FRS, cardiac physiologist and later head of the Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group. In an address to Dr. Nobles retirement party Balliol, he related that Denis Nobles response to Bergmans attempt to become a writer was to ply him with copious sherry. He was an intern at Beth Israel Hospital (subsequently renamed Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) which inspired the book [[The House of God]] Bergman is as of 2005 professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School division of addictions. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife Janet Surrey and a daughter. Shems play [[Bill W. and Dr. Bob]]had an Off Broadway run at New World Stage in New York City. It ran for 132 performances and closed on June 10, 2007. [[The New York Times]]called it "An insightful new play." His works are: * [[The House of God]](1978) * Fine(1985) * [[Mount Misery]](ISBN 0-8041-1555-9) * [[Bill W. and Dr. Bob]](play on alcoholism and the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous - William Griffith Wilson and Bob Smith (doctor) 1990) * We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women(with Janet Surrey, 1999, ISBN 0-465-09114-8) * The Spirit of the Place(ISBN 978-0-87338-942-6, June 2008)

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* http://www.samuelshem.com Official website] * http://www.billwanddrbob.com Bill W. and Dr. Bob.] - Shems off-Broadway show * http://upress.kent.edu/books/Shem_S.htm The Spirit of the Place] - link to publishers page Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:Harvard Medical School faculty Category:American psychiatrists Category:American physicians Category:American dramatists and playwrights Category:American novelists de:Samuel Shem es:Samuel Shem nl:Stephen Bergman