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You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

By: Benji Waterhouse
Narrated by: Benji Waterhouse
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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 he’s 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 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?

Humane, hilarious and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and darkly comic medical memoir - from both sides of the doctor’s desk.

©2024 Benji Waterhouse (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent (Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm)
Laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving in equal measure, his compassion for his patients shines through. Wonderfully written. I loved this book (Max Pemberton, author of Trust Me I'm a (Junior) Doctor)
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)
An absolute beauty... Wise, warm, witty and an excellent insight (Dr Phil Hammond, author of Staying Alive)
This is honestly my dream book. Both fascinating and bleakly funny in the way only an embattled NHS psychiatrist's book could be (Fern Brady, author of Strong Female Character)

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