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Weekends at Bellevue
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER | Julie Holland
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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 the psychiatric emergency room at New York Citys Bellevue Hospital. In this absorbing memoir, Holland recounts stories from her vast case files that are alternately terrifying, tragically comic, and profoundly moving: the serial killer, the naked man barking like a dog in Times Square, the schizophrenic begging for an injection of club soda to quiet the voices in his head, the subway conductor who watched a young woman pushed into the path of his train. Writing with uncommon candor, Holland supplies not only a page-turner with all the fast-paced immediacy of a TV medical drama but also a fascinating glimpse into the inner lives of doctors who struggle to maintain perspective in a world where sanity is in the eye of the beholder.
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Michollio
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📗 Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole
🎧 Artemis by Andy Weir

📚 4 (I just returned a big stack yesterday)

😟 Reread something you love. Find something short and fun. Try something new.

#WeekendReads
@rachelsbrittain

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Gina
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1. Weekends at Bellevue

2. All of the above

3. Saying something snarky about my waitress who was standing right behind me

4. That earthy damp smell after a rainstorm

5. black criticism

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peacegypsy
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Panpan

Pass on this one, unless you‘d like to read about a cold, egotistical doctor who wants us to know about her life instead of the stories of those afflicted by the pain of mental illness. I finished it, but I wish I hadn‘t.

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Thanks for the heads up 6y
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peacegypsy
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Please, no stereotypes.

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Dweezlepip
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Mehso-so

Meh.

Would have liked to hear more about the patients than the doctor.

Sleepswithbooks I just finished this one and agreed. I started finding her kind of arrogant from midway through to the end. 6y
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Dweezlepip
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#currently on second spring break (didn‘t know it was a thing? Also not complaining). I‘m currently in my psych rotation and I work in an er. I‘m on break from psych and I don‘t work until Wednesday.. yet here I am reading about a psych er. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Clwojick This looks like an absolute must read! 6y
Dweezlepip @Clwojick it‘s not bad. Less about the patients, more about the doc. 6y
Clwojick Darn! I like patient stories lol. I‘ll still read it though. 6y
CouronneDhiver Cool! 👍🏽 Love this kind of thing 6y
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JenniferJarrell
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What better way to unwind after hours of studying for my nurse practitioner certification exam than to read a psychiatrist‘s memoir of her time spent in Bellevue‘s psych ER?

Godmotherx5 Good luck. Go nurses! 6y
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Rhondareads
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cathysaid
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It's not a bad book, but I was hoping for less about the author's life and more about patient stories. Plus, I've got to get my "currently reading" under control! ? So much good stuff out there and so little time! ⌛️? #nonfiction #blameitonLitsy

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cathysaid
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Around sixty pages in and at this point, I'm giving it a "so-so." Moderately interesting, but it focuses more on the author's life rather than the circumstances that bring patients to the Bellevue psych ward. I suppose I was hoping to read about bizarre patient cases. But maybe that's still to come, so I'm not bailing yet. #nonfiction #SeasonsReadings 2016

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cathysaid
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Given the subject matter (working in a psych hospital ER), I thought this would be an appropriate pairing.

🍷📚🍷📚🍷📚🍷

#bookandbrew #winepairing

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cathysaid
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I post this reading plan for December prior to visiting the library or my bookshelves - which means I'll be adding to this as soon as I finish my coffee and climb the stairs. Planning to start today with Weekends at Bellevue. And if I actually leave my house (there are people out there 😱) I will start on audio the sixth Archer book in this series.

But wait...look! A shiny new book! Hmmm... #SeasonsReadings2016 #wanttoreadindec

Cinfhen Liking your choices 7y
RanaElizabeth I just saw the Bellevue book pop up on the library's new books list. It looks super good! 7y
RealLifeReading I really want to read Your Heart. Do tell us how you're liking it (or not) 7y
cathysaid @RanaElizabeth @RealLifeReading @cinphen I will post thoughts/reviews/occasional snark as I go! 7y
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Wife
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Pickpick

I've worked 10 yrs in an inner city ER, 2 yrs in a county jail, and 10 yrs in a psychiatric ward. So this book about a psychiatric ER held no surprise for me. Interesting for most folks I'd bet though. 💊💉🏥🚑

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