Doctors as Patients

 Doctors,  as strong, clever, resourceful professionals, are heir to human frailty  and illness, like anyone else. This book is about diagnosable,  label-able mental illness such as eating disorders, affective disorders  and, sometimes, psychosis. More than that, it is a book about doctors,  many fully-functioning, practising doctors, who suffer from these  illnesses, and the unique insights and problems that arise when the  doctor is the patient, especially when questions of insight and  judgement are blurred.