Weekends at Bellevue, Julie Holland
Weekends at Bellevue, Julie Holland
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Weekends at Bellevue

Author: Julie Holland

Narrator: Julie Holland

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/06/2009

Synopsis

Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room. Deciding who gets locked up and who gets talked down would be an awesome responsibility for most people. For her, it was just another day at the office...In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the Psych ER, recounting stories from her vast case file that are alternately terrifying, tragically comic, and profoundly moving. As Holland comes to understand, the degree to which someone can lose his or her mind is infinite, and each patient's pain leaves a mark on her as well--as does the cancer battle of a fellow doctor who is both her best friend and her most trusted mentor.Writing with uncommon candor about her life both inside and outside the hospital, Holland supplies a fascinating glimpse into the inner lives of doctors, struggling to maintain perspective in a world where sanity is in the eye of the beholder.

About Julie Holland

Julie Holland, MD, is a psychiatrist specializing in psychopharmacology, with a private practice in New York City. Her book Weekends at Bellevue chronicled her nine years running the psychiatric emergency room as an attending physician on the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine. Frequently featured on Today and in CNN's documentary series Weed, Holland is the editor of The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis and Ecstasy: The Complete Guide. She is the medical monitor for several clinical research studies on treating post-traumatic stress disorder, one using MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and another examining the effects of various strains of cannabis. Her New York Times bestselling book Moody Bitches has been translated into eleven languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elby on November 03, 2009

Julie Holland, M.D. is the weekend night shift doctor at Bellevue Psych Ward for nine years. Her job isn't particularly difficult unless there is night where the sheer volume of people coming through the door is overwhelming. By her own admission, she isn't very good at her job. From the stories she......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on August 13, 2012

I feel like this book is very misrepresented in some of the reviews below. So I would like to clear up a few points while the story is still fresh in my head. First, Dr. Holland did not sleep her way through the entire surgical team. She slept with a few of them, it's true, but so what? It wasn't il......more

Goodreads review by Kat on March 09, 2010

[URL not allowed] I now never want to go see the doctor again. Yes, I knew doctors were fallible, but like this? The stories she tells (and which are clearly only sidebars related to the main tale) of the sneakiness, anger and most disturbing of all, the pride of these men and women that keep......more

Goodreads review by Andres on July 22, 2009

I should point out two things that may influence my 5-star review: 1) medical narratives fascinate me completely, and 2) I've grown up hearing the kinds of stories found in this memoir from a family member who has worked in a similar setting. So right from the start this book grabbed my attention an......more

Goodreads review by Goddess1871 on March 02, 2010

This book began with such promise. I was intrigued with Dr. Holland after hearing her on some news show on NPR and decided to give it a go. While the title, Weekends at Bellvue, and the introductory pages imply case studies of the cases there and lessons learned, I quickly got the feeling that this......more

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