>>I have heard about the "House of God"; it is on my list. I am enjoying the popular-medicine books :)
Not what you expect. A hero who calls himself "Fat Man," elderly folk pejoratively labeled GOMERs and a set of outwardly cruel Rules of the House of God likely will scandalize. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1