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Title: Mount Misery by Samuel Shem ISBN: 0-8041-1555-9 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.48 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A roller coaster ride through modern psychiatry
Comment: Roy Basch, MD, is back! For any doctor or medical student, who at one time or another read "The House of God" and learned the LAWS by heart (most of them probably even use them on a regular basis!), this is a long awaited sequel. Having decided to leave internal medicine behind and to become a psychiatrist, Basch lives through his first year as a resident at a prestigious mental institution called Mount Misery, only to find out that the name is more than just metaphorical. He discovers, that it is sometimes hard to tell the patients from their therapists, and that normal can be a question of health insurance. It is an exciting, very funny, and sometimes even frightening novel about modern psychiatry. In "House of God" the reader wondered how much of the story was satirical and just how much was true. And if you're a physician, you will know that everything in it is real. Having read "Mount Misery", you will beg your therapist to tell you that it is all just a joke. But then again, maybe you are a shrink yourself and know better... A definite must for patients and doctors.
Rating: 5
Summary: Intriguing, Amusing, philosophical and thought provoking
Comment: In sharp contrast to this books older and more famous brother "The house of God" this one is much less hilarious and much more thought provoking and disturbing. Dr Baschs catastrophic and nearly fatal first year of residency in a prestigious psychiatric institute is depicted in all its gloomy details. The characters in this book are quite extreme each in its own positive or negative way and shems witty and clever description of them (even for the better ones) is merciless. a word of warning - don't get to attached to any of the characters, Shem has a tendency to eliminate some of them in various stages of the book. I am a medical student, and I first read this book In my first year after reading the "House of God" - it was mildly amusing. However, I reread it this year (my fifth) after doing my rotation in a psychiatric hospital and this book is right on target. It made me think very hard about the patients, the doctors and all that's in between. A must book for everyone who is interested in medicine, psychiatry or just plain human nature.
Rating: 4
Summary: funny and subversive
Comment: As a consumer who has, with difficulty, extricated herself from a mental health maze much like the one in "Mount Misery" I can vouch that as overblown as some of these characters and situations, there is a LOT of truth there, too, and it would be unwise for any would-be shrink who picked up this book to ignore it.
Samuel Shem is an equal opportunity offender. Freudians, drug docs, behavioralists, insurance companies, you name it, it's taken aim at here. As the young protagonist attempts to negotiate the various psychiatric schools and their devotees, there are suicides and unsavory sex scandals and more. Not being a doctor myself, I preferred this book to the "House of God."
My favorite part concerned the over-prescription of Prozac and other antidepressants of its class. I have been prescribed it by docs who don't know me from Adam and whose ignorance doesn't trouble them in the least. Shem may be over-exaggerating some dangers, but when it comes to many of the situations portrayed in the book, he's dead on (no pun).
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Title: The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital by Samuel Shem ISBN: 0385337388 Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Intern Blues : The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor by Robert Marion ISBN: 0060937092 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Kill As Few Patients As Possible by Oscar London ISBN: 089815197X Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: First, Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin ISBN: 044922290X Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Learning to Play God by Robert, MD Marion ISBN: 0449007448 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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