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As an RN in the Emergency Room during the time of COVID really brought back memories of the time I lost many patients and some colleagues both nurses and physicians. I really appreciated the insights offered by Samuel Shem.

I suspect this is one that we'll appreciate more with some distance. Dr. Roy Bausch is struggling, as are his colleagues, with working within a for profit hospital and then COVID hits. It's hard to read in spots as it brings back tough memories. And then there are the speeches. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. An important look at how health care workers kept going against the odds.

This book gave an interesting perspective on Covid through the eyes of doctors . I enjoyed catching up with the characters from the earlier books. This is a worthy successor to the previous ones.

In the sequel to The House of God and Man’s 4th Best Hospital Dr. Roy Basch returns to his economically depressed hometown. The hospital is struggling and battling Covid. Being a profit driven hospital, bureaucracy is strong. When doctors and nurses band together to battle the pandemic and the financial woes of the hospital, one thing is for certain – healthcare workers will do anything to save their patients.

This book explores the daily struggles of what fighting the pandemic was like for healthcare workers young and old, exhausted and determined.

This book was based during the onset of Covid. I love reading about the pandemic, but this one was such a real look at what the healthcare works faced. Honestly, it was really hard to get through despite being fiction. Covid was a daily struggle for those of us facing lockdowns, wiping down our groceries, and worrying if our friends and family were safe. For the healthcare workers, they faced struggles as well and it was magnified by for profit hospitals. Despite Covid ravaging our population, people still had emergencies, babies were still born, and the healthcare workers were called to action. I did find the writing to be a little off putting for me. It could be that I just wasn’t quite prepared for this view of the pandemic that literally just ended a few months ago, but the style wasn’t as inviting as I would have hoped. I did appreciate that this had a happy ending for such a bleak book.

Thank you so much to the publisher Berkley Pub, @BerkleyPub, and Netgalley @Netgalley for giving me this e-arc in exchange for an honest review.