This is a book review of a non-fiction book written to inform the un-informed, about everything you\u2019ve wanted to know about psychiatry & the asylum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a book review on \u201cFieldnotes of a Psychiatrist<\/strong>\u201d, written by Dr. Chong Siow Ann<\/strong>. He worked in a mental health hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patients face dying from terminal illnesses. Non-patients may only have brief moments to realise their life is going to be taken from them by calamity, or man made tragedy. In the face of death from either cause, do we go without a fight?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if the dying do not know their light is withering? Should the healthy tell the dying? Would the dying want to know they are leaving us? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Chong asks provocative questions as he shares with readers his experiences. There is do definite resolution as he explains how he has regrets on not informing his father of his terminal illness. Even. At the elderly man\u2019s deathbed, Dr. Chong didn\u2019t talk to his father directly about impending death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The common man and woman on the street think its evil to incarcerate a patient in a mental hospitals, which is actually a thin guise for an asylum. But the stark reality is that there is no other practical way of ensuring the safety of the patient and of the people around them, except by placing the patient under lock and watch. In fact, you can save the patient\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Chong discusses many questions commonly encountered by patients and doctors. He writes from both perspectives – as a doctor, and as a patient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an interesting book. Get it here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n