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NATIONAL BESTSELLERJulie 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 City’s 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.Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Exclusive: Julie Holland on Weekends at Bellevue No one is immune from mental illness. After working at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital for nine years, as the psychiatrist in charge of admissions at the psych E.R. on Saturday and Sunday nights, I came away knowing t

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Julie Holland
Publisher
Bantam Books
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780553386523
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, Medical, Social Science
Rating
3.44 / 5 (2,500 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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