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Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

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From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York, comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue and Rikers, and brings to life the world—the system, the staff, and the haunting cases—that shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned how to doctor and how to love. 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 Rikers Island who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care. These men were broken, unloved, 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 compassion. Her patients made her a great doctor and a...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18139226
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Regan Arts.
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781941393437
ISBN:
9781942872306, 9781941393437

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