Weekends at Bellevue
His name was Joshua Silver. He was twenty three years old, educated, and had an impressive vocabulary. The NYPD had found Joshua Silver naked in Times Square, barking like a dog. It was just another night for Julie Holland, the attending doctor in the world famous Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric eme...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | His name was Joshua Silver. He was twenty three years old, educated, and had an impressive vocabulary. The NYPD had found Joshua Silver naked in Times Square, barking like a dog. It was just another night for Julie Holland, the attending doctor in the world famous Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric emergency room. Every weekend for nine years, it was Holland's job to evaluate and treat all patients admitted, from the schizophrenic to the bipolar to the traumatized, from the homicidal to the suicidal to victims of unthinkable crimes. In this absorbing memoir, Holland provides a rare behind-the scenes glimpse into her life-altering experience at Bellevue, recounting stories of the patients who moved, terrified, fascinated, and amused her, the patients who helped her grow in ways she never imagined. Along the way, she documents her life outside the hospital-her relationship with her husband and the births of their children, her own therapy sessions which helped her finally crack through the tough exterior she had formed, and her close bond with her best friend and mentor, Lucy, a fellow doctor whose battle with cancer left Holland forever changed. |
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| Item Description: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 10:53:39. |
| Playing Time: | 10:53:39 |
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| ISBN: | 9780061967405 0061967408 |
| Author Notes: | Julie Holland graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Medical School. She has been a psychiatrist in private practice since 1996. She majored in the Biological Basis of Behavior at the University of Pennsylvania and received her M.D. in 1992 from Temple University School of Medicine. At Mount Sinai Medical Center, she completed a residency program in psychiatry, where she created a research project that treated schizophrenics with a new medication. In 1994, she received the Outstanding Resident Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. From 1996 until 2005 she worked weekends running Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric emergency room, and she's written an autobiography of this time entitled "Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER". She also provides expert testimony and forensic consultation on a range of drug related behavior and phenomena with a focus on PCP and MDMA. (Bowker Author Biography) |
