Sometimes amazing things happen : heartbreak and hope on the Bellevue Hospital psychiatric prison ward / Elizabeth Ford, MD.
Ford, Elizabeth (Elizabeth B.), author.
2017
RC438.6.F667 A3 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Sometimes amazing things happen : heartbreak and hope on the Bellevue Hospital psychiatric prison ward / Elizabeth Ford, MD.
Author Ford, Elizabeth (Elizabeth B.), author.
Edition First Regan Arts hardcover edition.
ISBN 9781941393437 (hardcover)
1941393438 (hardcover)
Published New York : Regan Arts, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description viii, 247 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number RC438.6.F667 A3 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.89/14092 B
Summary 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 City's Health and Hospitals, found her calling. Dr. Ford shares her stories of caring for these patients, 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. Ford's take on 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. Ford's 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.
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The body bag
Caught between the cracks
Stars over Bellevue
Never what you expect
The tender and the troubled
Mama grizzly
Pushing the limit
What doesn't break you
The listening cure
A mother's love
Even the stars can fall
When darkness comes
Shelter the broken
Unraveling
Burnout strikes
Out of the depths
Death and birth
Reunion
Back to the fire
Welcome back
Under the surface
Keeping secrets
Compassion is a verb
When the bridges close
When the lights go out
A light in the dark
Grace will lead
On the island
Keeping promises
Difficult goodbye
Sometimes amazing things happen
A story worth telling
Higher power
Ping-pong therapy
A brighter day
Beyond Bellevue.

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