Parker H- as he first learns of, and then attempts to cure, the supposedly incurable patient known only as Joe, who has been in the hospital since he was 6 and yet has not even been diagnosed in the decades since.
The Patient is a series of forum posts written in 2008 but describing incidents that took place in 2004-2005 in a small mental hospital in Connecticut called the Connecticut State Asylum. To begin, what is The Patient about, and when and where is it set? But as he reveals in the following email interview, when it came time to translate that posting into the novel The Patient ( hardcover, Kindle), DeWitt didn’t just cut and paste his original. Narrated by Earphones Award winner Edoardo Ballerini.A few years ago, writer Jasper DeWitt posted a horror story called “The Patient Who Nearly Drove Me Out Of Medicine” on the reddit subreddit NoSleep. But from his first encounter with the mystery patient, things spiral out of control, and, facing a possibility beyond his wildest imaginings, Parker is forced to question everything he thought he knew.įans of Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes and Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World will be riveted by Jasper DeWitt’s astonishing debut. Parker, brilliant and overconfident, takes it upon himself to discover what ails this mystery patient and finally cure him.
Every person who has attempted to treat him has been driven to madness or suicide.ĭesperate and fearful, the hospital’s directors keep him strictly confined and allow minimal contact with staff for their own safety, convinced that releasing him would unleash catastrophe on the outside world. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility’s most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a forty-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. The Silent Patient by way of Stephen King: Parker, a young, overconfident psychiatrist new to his job at a mental asylum, miscalculates catastrophically when he undertakes curing a mysterious and profoundly dangerous patient.
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