BOOK REVIEW
Pediatricians, especially those who have been away from a teaching hospital for several years may wish to read this book and possibly avoid the movie. It seems impossible that the latter could compare favorably with M* A* S*H, its apparent prototype. The story is about a graduate of the Best Medical School during his first year of internal medicine residency in the House of God, a big city teaching hospital. The book is said to be wonderfully wild. Perhaps it is wild, but not wonderfully. It is described as ribald and probably it is. Erotic, brilliant, wildly funny, moving, mordantly funny, brilliantly ironic, and fascinating are all mistakenly listed on the cover. They should add the word sickening. Perhaps most significant is whether the book is funny. In its entirety it is not, although the ability of the student from Memphis to answer inquiries by post card and gain admission to anything and everything is very clever.
