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The Patient by Jasper DeWitt, Edoardo Ballerini is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Patient about?

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. 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. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case#8212;a forty-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. This patient has no known diagnosis. His symptoms seem to evolve over time. Every person who has attempted to treat him has been driven to madness or suicide. Desperate 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 upon the outside world. Parker, brilliant and overconfident, takes it upon himself to discover what ails this patient and finally cure him. But

Who reads The Patient?

Author

Jasper DeWitt, Edoardo Ballerini

Publisher

HMH Books

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780358311263

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Horror

Rating

3.93 / 5 (137 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14