Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

by Elizabeth Ford

Book Overview

Elizabeth Ford cared for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people: the inmates of New York's jails, including Rikers Island. Her patients made her a great doctor and a better person and, as she treated these men, she learned about doctoring, about nurturing, about parenting, and about love. Ford brings humour, grace, and humanity to her beautifully rendered prose on the lives of the patients in her care, and illuminates the inner...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941393438
• ISBN13: 9781941393437
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Regan Arts
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"