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Dr Roy Basch is starting his residency at the Mount Misery psychiatric hospital. As he immerses himself in the system, he soon discovers that the process of treating the patients has less to do with making them better and more to do with maintaining the flow of insurance company money.
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"'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)
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"'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)
A blackly comic tour de force which does for psychiatrists what Catch-22 did for war.
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0552998133
- ISBN 13 9780552998130
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages570
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