While rushing to work one warm summer evening, Bill Chalmers, a junior executive at a company in Boston, realises that he cannot remember where he is going or even who he is. All Bill can remember is the motto of his company: "The maximum information in the minimum time".
When Bill's memory returns, a strange numbness afflicts him. Over the following months, as he attempts to receive a diagnosis of his illness, he descends into a Kafkaesque nightmare, enduring a blizzard of medical tests and specialists without conclusive results, a desperate wife who decides that he must be imagining his deteriorating condition, and the manic frenzy of his company.
By turns satiric, comic, and tragic, 'The Diagnosis' is a brilliant and disturbing examination of our modern obsession with speed, information, and money.
