
Sometimes Amazing Things Happen
Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
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Bernadette Dunne
Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn't until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling - to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City's jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care.
These men were broken, without resources or support, and very ill. They could be violent, unpredictable, but they could also be funny and tender and needy. Mostly, they were human and they awakened in Ford a boundless empathy. Her patients made her a great doctor and a better person. While Ford was a psychiatrist at Bellevue she became a wife and a mother. In her book she shares her struggles to balance her personal and professional lives, to care for her children and her patients, and to maintain the empathy that is essential to her practice - all in the face of a complex institution, an exhausting workload, and the deeply emotionally taxing nature of her work. Ford brings humor, grace, and humanity to the lives of the patients in her care and in beautifully rendered prose illuminates the inner workings (and failings) of our mental health and criminal justice systems.
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amazing book!!
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Dr Ford becomes truly immersed in her patients’ treatments, and she represents the best of what modern healthcare can deliver.
The ending is bittersweet- it would be a spoiler to reveal it...... but listen to this- you will not be disappointed.
The narrator was excellent: I did not realize until almost the end of the book that Dr Ford was not the narrator; Ms Dunne puts that much emotion into her reading.
Quite revealing...
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An interesting insight into the world of a psychiatrist working with inmates with mental illness
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Extraordinary
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Inspiring!!!
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Highly Recommend! 👌👍
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phenomenal
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Probably my new favorite book
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Half of the population is mentally ill.and dangerous. Most want a trip out of solitary confinement
On the island they don't want to take their meds or in hospital.
she seems like a very companionable Dr. their aren't too many psychiatrists who do. some just throw u on meds.
If you don't take your meds u will never get better. most don't care because there facing long sentences. There's not enough staff to handle them.
I liked the book.
Dr. Ford
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The book is well written and provides the reader with a good overview of the problems of the mentally ill in the correctional system. I came away with reinforcement of my opinion about the need to reform the mental health system both in the need to remove the mentally ill out of the prison population and get the mentally ill homeless off the streets. The book is a worthwhile read.
The book is almost eight and a half hours long. Bernadette Dunne does an excellent job narrating the book. Dunne is an actress and well-known audiobook narrator. Dunne has earned the Audie Award and over six Golden Earphone Awards.
Thought-Provoking
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