Everyone who's tried has, apparently, gone insane and/or killed themselves before they could figure "Joe" out. Parker soon discovers that this patient, known only among staff as "Joe" and rarely discussed due to his fearful reputation, has been kept in the hospital for 30 years with no diagnosis. On the day of his first interview, he witnessed an orderly being wheeled out of a room, tied down to a gurney, screaming about one particular patient.
Parker H- (all the characters have their last names blanked out this way to protect anonymity) has just started work at the Connecticut State Asylum. One of the few Reddit works to successfully make the jump to traditional publishing, with Pen Pal being the other big example. Starting originally on Reddit's NoSleep subreddit under the title "The Patient That Nearly Drove Me Out of Medicine," the story was later optioned by Ryan Reynolds and then published as a standalone novel by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The Patient is a 2020 novel by Jasper DeWitt. "I write this because as of this now, I am not sure if I am privy to a terrible secret or if I myself am insane."
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