SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on BBC Breakfast Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent being a doctor behind bars. Violence. Drugs. Suicide. Welcome to the world of a Prison Doctor. Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK's most infamous prisons - first in young offenders' institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe's largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield. From miraculous pregnancies to dirty protests, and from violent attacks on prisoners to heartbreaking acts of self-harm, she has witnessed it all. In this eye-opening, inspirational memoir, Amanda reveals the stories, the patients and the cases that have shaped a career helping those most of us would rather forget.
Despite their crimes, she is still their doctor. Gold title * Hot off the heels of the phenomenal success of books like THIS IS GOING TO HURT and BECOMING THE SUPERVET, comes the never before told story of a doctor behind bars. * Amanda is a GP at the largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield * She has a reputation amongst her patients as "the doctor who actually listens", and although she makes a point of never asking what they've been imprisoned for, her wonderful kindness means the women want to confide in her and she gets to hear about their former lives as she begins to treat them. As a result, she has many eye-opening stories about her patients, the relationships she forms and the truly harrowing realities of life on the inside. * Amanda was a regular NHS GP but she gave up her practice because she disliked the way the job's focus had shifted. The pressure to tick boxes and meet quotas seemed to have replaced the desire to help patients, which had drawn her into medicine in the first place. She's in a strong position to add her voice to the ongoing topical NHS debate. * Most of the bestselling medical memoirs have been told from a man's perspective and fewer still have offered an unparalleled insight into life behind bars and the myriad economic and social factors that lead women there.
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