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You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
- Author
- Benji Waterhouse
- Narrator
- Benji Waterhouse
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 16 May 2024
- Run Time
- 8 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
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)
Most of the psychiatric cases in this book are Benji’s 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 medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality.
Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to people’s 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 doctor’s desk. The perfect read for fans of This Is Going to Hurt, Unnatural Causes and The Prison Doctor.
‘This is honestly my dream book’ FERN BRADY
‘Fearlessly honest, funny and uplifting’ JO BRAND
‘Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent’ HENRY MARSH
©2024 Benji Waterhouse (P) 2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Darkly amusing and touching... It gives you an alarming insight into the chaotic lives of both patients and medical staff.
*Waterstones Favourite Reads of 2024*
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Hilarious, shocking and urgent… a deeply compassionate book, which paints a picture of professional dedication in the face of almost unbelievable dysfunction
The Times, *Book of the Week*
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It has a freshness and verve that sets it apart... What is unwavering and beautifully described is the inspiration Waterhouse continues to find in his patients. He has that essential trait of all good doctors: a sincere and lasting tenderness for his flawed and frail, crude and complicated, broken and brilliant fellow human beings… Ultimately, this is a campaigning work, both brilliantly funny and deadly serious…. His book is humane, hilarious, eye-opening – and deserves to be widely read
Guardian
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The face of modern psychiatry
Dr Gwen Adshead, author of The Devil You Know
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Humorous and humane … [Waterhouse] finds the funny without turning patients into punchlines... It’s a warm-hearted reminder that the [NHS] system is still staffed by many people doing their darnedest to connect with and care for people
Sunday Telegraph
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Funny, humane and insightful
i news
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A darkly comic personal trawl through the world of psychiatry and the idiosyncratic characters struggling on both sides of the divide. Honest, funny, saddening and uplifting all rolled into one
Jo Brand, comedian and former psychiatric nurse
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Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent
Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm
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Things certainly don’t always work out for Dr Benji Waterhouse in his darkly amusing and touching memoir You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here, about his experiences as an NHS doctor specialising in psychiatry. It gives you an alarming insight into the chaotic lives of both patients and medical staff
Jacqueline Wilson
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A heartbreaking and also funny look at psychiatry. I loved this engrossing book which taught me lots of new things and broadened my mind
Cathy Rentzenbrink
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Details
- Author
- Benji Waterhouse
- Narrator
- Benji Waterhouse
- Duration
- 8 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 May 2024
- ISBN
- 9781473590519
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Memoirs, Coping with / advice about mental health issues or topics, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Psychiatry
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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)Most of the psychiatric cases in this book are Benji’s 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 medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality. Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to people’s 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 doctor’s desk. The perfect read for fans of This Is Going to Hurt, Unnatural Causes and The Prison Doctor.‘This is honestly my dream book’ FERN BRADY‘Fearlessly honest, funny and uplifting’ JO BRAND‘Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent’ HENRY MARSH©2024 Benji Waterhouse (P) 2024 Penguin Audio
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