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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
I was under the assumption that this book was going to be more about the really "crazy" episodes that happen during an ER psyche hospital shift. However, it was more about the author's journey to get there. Regardless, I still found it to be an easy read, and I flew right through it. I recommend it for anyone interested in psychology.
emotional
informative
medium-paced
Coincidentally, my mom gave me this book and I started working at an inpatient psych hospital a few months later even though that was never my plan! I ended up seeing a lot of paralleled between his stories and what I see in my own job, particularly when he wrote about borderline personality disorder, folks who are malingering, and medically fragile patients.
This was a slow and steady read. Definitely not a “I can’t put it down” read but still enjoyable. It was a good balance between medical/scientific background and storytelling.
The chapter on ethics and organ transplants was really interesting and a somber look into the transplant process.
**adding this review in January 2021/backlogging my old reading journal**
This was a slow and steady read. Definitely not a “I can’t put it down” read but still enjoyable. It was a good balance between medical/scientific background and storytelling.
The chapter on ethics and organ transplants was really interesting and a somber look into the transplant process.
**adding this review in January 2021/backlogging my old reading journal**
Yeah, I was expecting more from it. It just took me forever to get into the book. The first half of the book really didn't interest me at all. It wasn't until the last few chapters that I finally got interested, and even still, it wasn't the most enthralling thing ever.
I guess I wanted more personal stories about the patients or his coworkers or even really about the Psych ER! I wanted the entire book to be more like the last few chapters, which were really patient-oriented.
I was more expecting something along the line of Rob Dobrenski's book "Crazy," (which I recommend, by the way) and that's just not what this book was. Though I think it should have been.
I guess I wanted more personal stories about the patients or his coworkers or even really about the Psych ER! I wanted the entire book to be more like the last few chapters, which were really patient-oriented.
I was more expecting something along the line of Rob Dobrenski's book "Crazy," (which I recommend, by the way) and that's just not what this book was. Though I think it should have been.