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Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

From the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services in New York City comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue Hospital’s forensic psychiatry unit and brings to life the world—the system, the staff, and the haunting cases—that shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned about respect, survival and our shared humanity. Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn’t until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling—to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City's jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care. These men were broken, without resources or support, and very ill. They could be violent, unpredictable, but they could also be funny and tender and needy. Mostly, they were human and they awakened in Ford a boundless empathy. Her patients made her a great doctor and a better person. While Ford was a psychiatrist at Bellevue she became a wife and a mother. In her book she shares her struggles to balance her personal and professional lives, to care for her children and her patients, and to maintain the empathy that is essential to her practice—all in the face of a complex institution, an exhausting workload, and the deeply emotionally taxing nature of her work. Ford brings humor, grace, and humanity to the lives of the patients in her care and in beautifully rendered prose illuminates the inner workings (and failings) of our mental health and criminal justice systems.

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

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Fish tails and scales by Jean Elizabeth Ford 

#psychiatry #correctionalhealthservices #newyorkcity #bellevuehospital #forensicpsychiatry #ARC #Ford        From the Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services in New York City comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue Hospital’s forensic psychiatry unit and brings to life the world—the system, the staff, and the haunting cases—that shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned about respect, survival, and our shared humanity.

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 riveting 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. Eloquent and urgent, her indelible chronicle offers affecting proof that sometimes amazing things happen. Hi#paperback #paperback 

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Sometimes Amazing Things Happen 

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Dave Boling

Maria Dahvana Headley

Kevin Emerson

Clyde W. Ford

Teri Hein

Stacey Levine

Peter Mountford

Nancy Rawles

Ed Skoog

Indu Sundaresan

Nancy Pearl

Robert Dugoni

Kevin O'Brien

Garth Stein

Jennie Shortridge

Elizabeth George

Kathleen Alcalá

Erica Bauermeister

Deb Caletti

William Dietrich

Karen Finneyfrock

Stephanie Kallos

Frances McCue

Suzanne Selfors

Craig Welch

Matthew Amster-Burton

Sean Beaudoin

Carol Cassella

Jamie Ford

Mary Guterson

Erik Larson

Jarret Middleton

Julia Quinn

Greg Stump

David Lasky

Susan Wiggs

California

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.
 

 
Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother's absence.
 
The quirky tenants--a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by--rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows.
 
Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.


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Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

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Elizabeth Ford, MD

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

Hotel Angeline - A Novel in 36 Voices

Assorted authors

The end has come

Susie Blackmun; Liz Fordred

An Ocean to Cross