Weekends at Bellevue : Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych Er

from meklarian

I received this book through the librarything early reviewer list. I found Weekends at Bellevue to be an interesting and entertaining read. I was a little disappointed that the material was so closely confined to Julie Holland and her most notable patients and incidents, though, this isn't the fa...

from ForeignCircus

In this admittedly disjointed memoir, Holland reveals just what it takes to run the weekend shift at one of America's most famous mental hospitals for almost a decade. Not one to sugarcoat reality, Holland paints a disturbing picture of our current mental healthcare priorities, and quite frankly ...

from julko

I would say this is an uneven read but was ultimately interesting. I'm always fascinated ti read about the medical profession and gain insight into their "daily life" and how they diagnose and make decisions. That was one of the reasons I was so frustrated by this book - I felt it overglossed dia...

from julko

I would say this is an uneven read but was ultimately interesting. I'm always fascinated ti read about the medical profession and gain insight into their "daily life" and how they diagnose and make decisions. That was one of the reasons I was so frustrated by this book - I felt it overglossed dia...

from madforbooks

This memior is not just about a doctor's nine year experience in the psych ER of Bellevue. It also contains several informative chapters educating the reader about sociology, psychology and psychopharmachology. In conversational style, we learn how Holland became a doctor and took her position in...