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Mount Misery

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Description for Mount Misery Paperback. Welcome to Mount Misery psychiatric hospital, home of the crazed, the suicidal, the Machiavellian and the wicked. And that's just the doctors. For Dr Roy Basch, proudly starting his residency there, it is a bewildering and nightmarish experience. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 402.

Welcome to Mount Misery psychiatric hospital, home of the crazed, the suicidal, the Machiavellian and the wicked. And that's just the doctors. For Dr Roy Basch, proudly starting his residency there, it is a bewildering and nightmarish experience. The different disciplines appear to compete with one another to find the best ways to reduce the patients to gibbering wrecks. As he immerses himself in the system, he discovers that the process of treating the patients has less to do with making them better and more with maintaining the flow of insurance company money. Basch believes that he can find meaning ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2009
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552776226
SKU
9780552776226
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Samuel Shem
Samuel Shem (Stephen Bergman M.D.) graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and earned a Ph.D in physiology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the novels The House of God, Mount Misery and Fine, and seven plays, including, with Janet Surrey, ... Read more

Reviews for Mount Misery
'An engrossing read...darkly entertaining...One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest for the 90s'
San Diego Union Tribune
'Provocative, complex and disturbing...[Shem] writes with enough passion that we care and enough wisdom that we are able to understand'
American Oxonian
'Outrageously funny...a sage and important book'
The Boston Globe

Goodreads reviews for Mount Misery


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