You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrists Life

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**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**

A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from the Adam Kay of mental healthcare (THE TIMES)

This is honestly my dream book Fascinating FERN BRADY

Fearlessly honest, funny and uplifting JO BRAND

Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent HENRY MARSH

Most of the psychiatric cases in this book are Benjis 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?

This is an eye-opening medical memoir from both sides of the doctors desk. The perfect read for fans of This Is Going to Hurt, Unnatural Causes and The Prison Doctor.

5-STAR READER REVIEWS
Fantasticsearing and honest
Warmth, humour and compassion
This book needs to be read by everybody
Both entertaining and essential!
Sensitively writtenmoving and eye-opening
CourageousI could not put this book down

PRODUCT DETAILS :

DIMENSION : 198 mm x 128 mm
WEIGHT : 234 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
Health, Relationships & Personal development
Medicine & Nursing