Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

From the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services in New York City comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue Hospitalâ€™s forensic psychiatry unit and brings to life the worldâ€”the system, the staff, and the haunting casesâ€”that shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned about respect, survival, and our shared humanity.

Welcome to the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward, a maximum-security hospital and inpatient psychiatric unit for the inmates of the New York City jail system, with its hub on Rikers Island. It is a world of heartbreak, violence, and pain, where severely ill men are often lost in a tangle of courts, jails, and bureaucracy. It is also a place of challenges, redemption, and surprising joy, where tough, hardworking doctors and staff fight to care for and keep safe a population that many would like to forget. This is where Dr. Elizabeth Ford, now the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services for New York Cityâ€™s Health and Hospitals, found her calling.

Dr. Ford shares her stories of caring for these patientsâ€”from one of the most hated and alienated inmates at Rikers, who cries when discussing his abusive childhood, to the writer, who agrees to treatment in exchange for Dr. Fordâ€™s take onÂ the opening chapter of his book, to the twenty-four-year-old schizophrenic whom Dr. Ford later encounters on the streets of Manhattan, happy and healthy after finally finding the right medication.

Fordâ€™s riveting memoir is marked by explosive crises and episodes of violent psychosis, but also moving stories of compassion and hope in the face of overwhelming dysfunction. Eloquent and urgent, her indelible chronicle offers affecting proof that sometimes amazing things happen.

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â€œThe individual stories of these menâ€”who were central to my experiences as a psychiatristâ€”are at once incredibly humbling, terrifying, and inspiring. Through them, I learned about survival and hope.â€ â€”Elizabeth Ford, MD
Country USA
Brand Regan Arts.
Manufacturer Regan Arts.
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781682451229
ReleaseDate 2018-04-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781682451229

Country	USA
Brand	Regan Arts.
Manufacturer	Regan Arts.
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781682451229
ReleaseDate	2018-04-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781682451229

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

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