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ID: 630748
Title: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrists Life
Author: Benji Waterhouse
Narrator: Benji Waterhouse
Format: Unabridged
Length: 08:30:36
Language: English
Release date: 05-16-24
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, History & Culture, Mental Health
Summary:
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A woman with bipolar flies from America in a wedding dress to marry Harry Styles.
A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes hes got a cure for coronavirus.
A depressed psychiatrist hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.
Most of the characters in this book are his patients. Some of them are his family. One of them is him.
Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicines most mysterious and controversial speciality.
Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to peoples messy lives really within medical school textbooks? And how can vulnerable patients receive the care they need when psychiatry lacks staff, hospital beds and any actual cures?
Humane, hilarious and heart-breaking, You Dont Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and darkly comic medical memoir - from both sides of the doctors desk.
This is the perfect read for fans of This Is Going to Hurt, Unnatural Causes and The Prison Doctor.
A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from the Adam Kay of mental healthcare (THE TIMES)
'Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent' HENRY MARSH
'This is honestly my dream book. Both fascinating and bleakly funny' FERN BRADY
Honest, funny, saddening and uplifting all rolled into one JO BRAND
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