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By: Samuel Shem With his latest novel, Our Hospital, out this month, author Samuel Shem reflects on the impact that House of God has had on doctors and medical students for over 40 years and reminds students of the essential truths of practicing medicine.  I never wanted to write a novel; it was sort of an accident.

Book bans have increased more than 1100% between 2020 and 2022.  The American Library Association (ALA) has reported an unprecedented number of book bans and “documented 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources in 2022, the highest number of attempted book bans since ALA began compiling data about censorship in libraries more than 20 years ago.”