A Philip Stern M D

Break A Philip Stern M D

From the viewpoint of a talented medical student who psychologically crumbles under the pressure of his training, the reader is given rare access to the world of the locked inpatient psychiatry unit and the patients who are treated there. The reader also meets the clinicians who may represent the last best hope for these patients' recovery. In this book, you will follow the protagonist, Raine Weston, along his descent into madness and back with the help of a female psychiatry resident, Rose Mueller, whose own struggles with depression and alcoholism help to forge a unique bond between two fractured individuals. As a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, A. Philip Stern has worked with patients in their most desperate hours, in order to help them regain the life they want to live. While all stories in this book are entirely fictional, the emotional and narrative core of the story stems from the world in which he trained.