As Wattpaders, I think we all have one thing in common. Our love for books. This is a place where I'll recommend my favorite books to you guys, and you can also recommend yours to me. Each chapter will contain a non spoiler and spoiler section so yo...
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Note : I didn't put the picture of the author for this one because he writes anonymously
Genre : Psychological thriller/ horror
Pages : 224
Published : July 7, 2020
Goodreads rating : 4.1 stars
Trigger warning : Self-Harm, Sexual Abuse and Suicide
My personal rating : 4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
My favorite quote from the book : "I learned the hard way in my first months that you don’t point out reality to people who have delusions. It doesn’t help, and they just get angry.”
Description :
In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient.
We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility’s most difficult, profoundly dangerous case—a forty-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. This patient has no known diagnosis. His symptoms seem to evolve over time. Every person who has attempted to treat him has been driven to madness or suicide.
Desperate and fearful, the hospital’s directors keep him strictly confined and allow minimal contact with staff for their own safety, convinced that releasing him would unleash catastrophe on the outside world. Parker, brilliant and overconfident, takes it upon himself to discover what ails this mystery patient and finally cure him. But from his first encounter with the mystery patient, things spiral out of control, and, facing a possibility beyond his wildest imaginings, Parker is forced to question everything he thought he knew.
Fans of Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes and Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World will be riveted by Jasper DeWitt’s astonishing debut.
NON-SPOILER SECTION
This book was originally a no sleep sub reddit story titled 'The patient who nearly drove me out of Medicine' and was published as a novel in 2020.
In the author's words, here's what the book is about : "The Patient is the story of Dr. Parker H—–, a Yale School of Medicine graduate who goes to work at a poorly funded, out of the way hospital in Connecticut against the wishes of his professors, looking to assuage his guilt over not being able to save his schizophrenic mother from dying. He discovers that, at this hospital, there is a patient who people are afraid to even talk about, and who no one has been able to diagnose or treat in the 30 years he’s been there. Convinced he’s the smartest person in the hospital and more than equal to this problem that decades of doctors have failed to solve, he finagles his way into working with “The Patient.” It goes both better and worse than he could possibly have expected."
