Authors Julie Hollad
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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 this for sure. Over the years, I admitted heiresses and art dealers, altar boys and college students, homecoming queens, studio executives, bankers, lawyers, correction officers, and the list goes on. No matter who you are, what you do for a living, how much money you have in the bank, or how often you go to church, circumstances can transpire that will bring you to Bellevue. This is one of the hardest lessons for our patients to learn.
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# Hardcover: 320 pages
# Publisher: Bantam; 1 edition (October 6, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0553807668
# ISBN-13: 978-0553807660
# Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
# Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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Review Weekends at Bellevue
The memoir's structure is also stilted. We hop from Julie showering a probable rape victim to her flirting with a colleague to the interview of a definite rape victim without the mention of the careless organization of memories. Instead these smattering of incidents are the preclude to a chapter of promiscuous sex and her turn-ons.
She has a machismo attitude, is sexually aggressive and competetive, and ignores the illness of her good friend. Holland flaunts and honors her difficulties with authority, although she does not tolerate challenges to her authority. As she relates the stories of her cases, Holland doesn't seem to empathize with her patients, or relate to them emotionally.
She tried for a few story arcs within the individual chapters of the horrifying patients. The one that was most stirring was the story of her dear friend Lucy, also the head of the ER department, who died of cancer. The stories of her own marriage and motherhood were important to the overall arc of the story but not compelling parts of narrative.
The glossary might help, but this book has so many medical terms and jargon that it really does interrupt the flow. The book seems disconnected at some point. It is a good read, but needs some editing.
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