Steve Bergman

Steve Bergman (born 1944) is an American psychiatrist who writes under the pen name Samuel Shem. He is best known for his novel The House of God (1978), a fictionalized account of his internship at a Boston hospital that has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and was named by The Lancet as one of the two most important American medical novels of the 20th century. Bergman was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for 35 years and has authored numerous novels exploring medical themes and other subjects.