Helpful Score: 3
Despite wanting to like this book I found it hard to read and read a few lighter books in between pages. Basically, it highlights that our medical system is truly broken and so are the people who are supposed to help and are "in charge" of the rest of us helpless souls. It's House of God meets psychiatry. I loved House of God during my medical training and while I'm entrenched in cynism and live and work in our broken system I found reading about it in this author's style too depressing. And yes, I know, it's called "Mount Misery" for a reason. The author's style is very much true to House of God so I do recommend reading it as its sequel despite the middle that drags on steeped in Freud. I think there's meant to be a catharsis at the end even if that is sad and depressing too.
