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Title: Thoughtless drivel
Review: The House of God was a thoughtful, inspired cutting and usually dark satire of the medical world.Mount Misery is a good description of trying to read this book. It has the feel of one of those [inexpensive] knock-off movies or television shows where one person comes up with a brilliant concept and someone tries to duplicate it, fails and ultimately makes it much much worse.It scares me that such a misanthropic person is a psychiatrist and that he can see the world so myopically as to think that a book like this would create anything but fodder for bad reviews.... if you are interested in writing about psychiatry read Kay Redfield Jameson or patient perspective books--Sylvia Plath, even Kaysen. ...
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