Benji Waterhouse You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here : A Psychiatrist's Life

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA humane, hilarious and heartbreaking window into the world of psychiatry from the Adam Kay of mental healthcare (THE TIMES)This is honestly my dream book... Fascinating FERN BRADYFearlessly honest, funny and uplifting JO BRANDVery funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent HENRY MARSHMost 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 flyonthepaddedwall 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 eyeopening 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.5STAR READER REVIEWSFantastic...searing and honestWarmth, humour and compassionThis book needs to be read by everybodyBoth entertaining and essential! Sensitively written...moving and eyeopeningCourageous...I could not put this book down | Benji Waterhouse You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here : A Psychiatrist's Life