Paperback: 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, no-holds-barred, 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, a doctor devoted to caring for those most of us would rather forget.
About the author: Dr Amanda Brown was a regular NHS GP with a comfortable, suburban practice, before she made the move to working with prisoners. She has worked in a teenage detention centre and Wormwood Scrubs, and she currently works at Bronzefield, the largest women-only prison in Europe. The Prison Doctor (2019) is her first book.
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