Wildly improbable

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The choice to write this like a series of "anonymous" blog posts made this significantly more suspenseful/interesting, but it was still wildly improbable and the characters made very little sense - especially the doctors. It makes out psychiatry to be a bit of a "quack" profession and perpetuates false notions that psychiatry exists just "medicate to senselessness". The older doctors' obsession with secrecy and maintaining the status quo (but doing so in a way that is both ineffective and unreasonable) makes them almost totally unbelievable. And the young doctor, our narrator, was a little too... personally invested and taken over by a savior complex.

Also, the fact that the young doctor was so easily duped... it was embarrassing! He's a medical professional who studied hard, attended to actual patience as part of his training, and theoretically isn't stupid. Even though the book was short and sensationalized, it was totally unbelievable - and I'm not even talking about the twist.