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Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite
Fallible: A Memoir of a Young Physician's Struggle with Mental Illness by Kyle Bradford Jones is a moving memoir about the author's struggle with generalized anxiety and depressive disorder. Being a physician, he deals with life and death, suffering and hope, pain and wellness, and health and sickness and this memoir is about his fallibility and trying to find his way in the world despite his depression and severe anxiety. It is said that physicians experience mental illness and have a suicide rate three times higher than the general population of men, and untreated mental illness in medical providers leads to an increase in medical mistakes. He also explores his religious experiences surrounding mental illness and how many a time it was a big help and many a time it was a hindrance.
Fallible is honest and gives readers a peek into the author's vulnerable state of mind as they go through his different stages of life, his mission work with the LDS Church, his college-going days, his medical school, and finally becoming a physician. Kyle Bradford Jones speaks about his struggles with mental illness in an extensive way, giving readers glimpses of his struggles to cope with anxiety and depression. The memoir is enlightening though some of the descriptions of the hospitals are disturbing. Nevertheless, the memoir gives good insights into the American medical system. What I admired most is the author's decision to come out with his problems, be open about it, and thereby trying to get rid of the stigma surrounding mental illness not only among physicians and other medical practitioners but also society.
