News | Medical students meet best-selling author, comedian and NHS psychiatrist, Dr Benji Waterhouse 👉 https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/medical-students-benji-waterhouse-leicester It’s not every day you get to meet a best-selling author, comedian and NHS psychiatrist. But that’s exactly what the Medicine with Foundation Year students at the University of Leicester got to do last week (9 May) ahead of the Leicester leg of Dr Benji Waterhouse’s book tour show. Benji treated the group of around 30 students to a sneaky peak of what his audiences had in store. Thanks to a collaboration with the English department at the University, students on the course have been studying his book, ‘You don’t have To Be Mad to Work Here’, about the world of psychiatry - a place still inhabited by Benji, albeit on a part-time basis these days. Through some dark level humour and empathy, the reader is plunged into an authentic and fascinating tale of life in a psych ward, where the stakes are high and decisions can literally be a matter of life or death. Read the full story. 👆 #CitizensOfChange (fb)