Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553386522 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Doctor, heal thyself! Epilady "There is a diaphanous membrane between sane and insane. It is the flimsiest of barriers, and because any one of us can break through at any time" - Julie Holland, author of Weekends at BellevueThis autobiography details some of the more interesting cases seen by Julie Holland, a pyschopharma. Mad in Manhattan If there's ever an indictment of the current education and training of psychiatrists, this is it. Are grades and self-absorption the only criteria for admission? The author writes like a tabloid journalist, not a medical professional. How did this woman get certified, I wondered. The first ch. I would recommend this to any psychology major This book reads well, especially if you have any kind of affinity for psychology and/or practical knowledge of it. I'm still reading this book, and it is quite interesting and well written. I would recommend this to any psychology major.
Or vice versa. After working at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital for nine years, as the psychiatrist in charge of admissions at the psych E.R. One night a young man was brought in to the E.R. It is the flimsiest of barriers, and because any one of us can break through at any time, it terrifies us, causing us to turn our backs on those who remind us of this painful reality. We owe them something better. No matter who you are, what you do for a living, how much money you have in the bank, or how often you go to church, circumstances can transpire that will bring you to Bellevue. After a few years of Bellevue experiences under my belt, I developed a sixth sense for what real crazy looked like, sounded like, and yes, smelled like. because he was found on a street corne
Writing with uncommon candor, Holland supplies not only a page-turner with all the fast-paced immediacy of a TV medical drama but also a fascinating glimpse into the inner lives of doctors who struggle to maintain perspective in a world where sanity is in the eye of the beholder.. In this absorbing memoir, Holland recounts stories from her vast case files that are alternately terrifying, tragically comic, and profoundly moving: the serial killer, the naked man barking like a dog in Times Square, the schizophrenic begging for an injection of club soda to quiet the voices in his head, the subway conductor who watched a young woman pushed into the path of his train. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of the psychiatric emer