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Characterization labels used: psychiatrist, surgeon, scientist, doctor, patient as test subject, violent protagonist, psychotic protagonist, paranoid protagonist, brilliant but unstable, arrogant experts, female doctor, beleaguered psychiatrist, paper-thin characters, limited character development

Relationships labels used: doctor-patient, medical team, professional rivalry, authority vs patient, institutional power, patient under guard, human-machine relation, man-machine conflict

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Cover of Hospital by Han Song

Hospital

Han Song · 2023 · Hospital

A business trip turns nightmarish when a mysterious illness traps one man inside a dystopian hospital system.

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Characterization labels: hapless protagonist · confused protagonist · middle-aged man · patient protagonist · bureaucratic functionaries · doctors · medical punk · flat characters · delirious protagonist · imaginative protagonist

Relationships labels: doctor-patient power imbalance · institutional control · family breakdown · family conventions · bribery · coercion · dependency · authority conflict · gendered hostility · parent-child tension

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1510

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Cover of The Asylum by Matt Dymerski

The Asylum

Matt Dymerski · 2013

A doctor in an asylum follows patient accounts into a disturbing mystery that may reveal madness, truth, or both.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · asylum worker · patients · mentor figure · unreliable protagonist · investigator

Relationships labels: doctor-patient · mentor-student · institutional power · abusive relationships · male DV victim · worker-patient

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1516

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Cover of Drug of Choice by John Lange

Drug of Choice

John Lange, Michael Crichton · 2013

A doctor traces a strange blue-urine case to a secret resort and a corporation using drugs to bend reality.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · medical resident · curious investigator · reluctant hero · thin characters · poor character development · male hero · villainous corporation · evil masterminds · beautiful women · famous actress · biker patient · young doctor

Relationships labels: doctor-patient · romantic entanglement · corporate recruitment · power imbalance · trust and betrayal · friend or foe uncertainty · institutional control · rivalry with corporation · dependency

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1536

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Cover of The Chef by Andy Weir

The Chef

Andy Weir · 2010

A woman in a hospital remembers an explosion, and a doctor’s questions slowly turn a simple recovery into something darker.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: woman protagonist · doctor · memory loss · disturbed protagonist · ambiguous motives · hidden identity · potentially unreliable narrator · young girl

Relationships labels: doctor-patient · father-daughter · power imbalance · possible abuse · manipulation · interrogation

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1698

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Cover of العنكبوت by Mostafa Mahmoud

العنكبوت

Mostafa Mahmoud, مصطفى محمود

A doctor pursues a baffling patient and uncovers a speculative mystery about the soul, memory, and past lives.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · older protagonist · curious investigator · medical expert · philosophical thinker · obsessive seeker · scientist-physician · mysterious patient · driven researcher · intellectual protagonist

Relationships labels: doctor-patient · mentor-like inquiry · pursuit dynamic · investigator-subject · professional intrusion · conflict with authority · observer-observed

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1728

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Cover of K-Pax by Gene Brewer

K-Pax

Gene Brewer · 1995 · K-Pax

A psychiatrist records sessions with a patient who claims to be an alien from K-PAX, and the truth stays uncertain.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: charismatic outsider · enigmatic patient · psychiatrist protagonist · unreliable identity · compelling patient · institutional staff · secondary patients

Relationships labels: doctor-patient · therapist-client · mentor-like influence · patient community · staff-patient · friendship · possible dependency

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1732

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Cover of A Case of Need by Michael Crichton

A Case of Need

Michael Crichton, Jeffery Hudson · 2017

A Boston pathologist investigates when a doctor friend is jailed over a woman’s death after an alleged illegal abortion.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: pathologist · obstetrician · doctor-detective · loyal friend · professional colleague · prominent physician · medical authority · upright doctor · scapegoat · imperfect protagonist · driven investigator · arrogant doctors · many characters

Relationships labels: friendship · professional loyalty · doctor colleague · family secrets · parent-child conflict · doctor-patient · hospital hierarchy · romantic infidelity · marital tension · power imbalance · community suspicion

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1740

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Cover of Understand by Ted Chiang

Understand

Ted Chiang · 2006

A brain-damaged man receives experimental treatment that makes him exponentially smarter—and increasingly unlike human.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: superintelligent protagonist · cold protagonist · unlikeable protagonist · arrogant genius · socially unaware · paranoid · self-absorbed · humanity loss · enhanced mind · government scientists · opposing superintelligence

Relationships labels: patient-doctor · government oversight · intellectual rivalry · adversarial duel · human vs enhanced · baseline vs enhanced · individual vs state

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1761

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Cover of Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing

Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

Doris Lessing · 1971

An amnesiac Cambridge professor in a psychiatric ward drifts through visions, letters, and memory as reality fractures.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: middle-aged professor · academics · amnesiac protagonist · eccentric · delusional · traumatized veteran · mystery patient · doctors · nurses · family members · friends and colleagues · uncooperative patient · identity-fractured protagonist

Relationships labels: doctor-patient · family reconciliation · marriage · husband-wife · friends and colleagues · authority conflict · treatment relation · medical custody · community witness · lover references

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1767

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Cover of The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2003

A man whose dreams rewrite reality is used by an ambitious psychiatrist to try remaking the world.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: ordinary protagonist · passive protagonist · quiet protagonist · reluctant hero · power-hungry antagonist · ambitious psychiatrist · manipulative authority figure · vulnerable patient · love interest · underdeveloped supporting cast · egomaniac · mild-mannered lead

Relationships labels: patient-doctor · therapeutic power imbalance · romantic relationship · friendship · manipulation · dependency · trust and betrayal · control dynamic · mentor abuse · love under pressure

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1784

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Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud

Crypt of the Moon Spider

Nathan Ballingrud · 2024 · Lunar Gothic Trilogy

A woman is sent to a moon asylum for melancholy, where spider-silk medicine and buried secrets warp mind and body.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: melancholy protagonist · passive heroine · female lead · mad scientist · sadistic doctor · abusive orderly · condescending husband · patient prisoner · scientific authority figure · brain surgeon · cultic scholars · victimized woman

Relationships labels: husband-wife · marital abandonment · institutional power imbalance · doctor-patient · parent-child influence · male authority over women · caregiver abuse

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1785

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Cover of متلازمة فريجولي by منال معشي

متلازمة فريجولي

منال معشي · 2023 · متلازمة فريجولي

A young psychologist is assigned to a rare psychiatric case, and the patient and hospital secrets quickly entangle them both.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: psychologist · teen patient · antihero doctor · angry protagonist · guarded protagonist · traumatized character · childlike character · loner · prickly personality · supportive friend · mysterious antagonist · morally gray

Relationships labels: doctor-patient · fractured friendship · protective bond · mutual healing · sibling-like bond · trust building · power imbalance

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1811

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