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The Prison Doctor

By: Dr Amanda Brown, Ruth Kelly
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
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Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent behind bars.

The no-holds-barred memoirs of a GP who went from working at a quiet suburban practice to treating the country’s most dangerous criminals - first in young offenders’ institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe’s largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield.

©2019 Dr Amanda Brown (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Abuse Domestic Partner Abuse Dysfunctional Families Medical Medicine & Health Care Industry Parenting & Families Physician & Patient Professionals & Academics Relationships Social Sciences Inspiring Thought-Provoking

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Great book from start to finish. Sometimes sad. The reader is one of the best I have listened to.

A great book from start to finish.

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Interesting and realistic,as an ex prison officer I can relate to many of the incidents described

True to life

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Interesting to hear from a doctors perspective.
Loved every minute of it. 100% would recommend this. The narrator had a nice calming easy to listen to type of voice also.

Loved it!

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There is no doubt that a privileged doctor had several wake-up moments in her years working in prisons, and the stories of these people in prison, the women especially, are heartbreaking, worthy of note and interesting. for the stories, this is a quality book.

I take issue with the writer using this platform to regularly acknowledge shortfalls in our society and our prison service, without a call to action, say, to increase help for homeless people, a recurring issue, or a call to get doctors to work in prisons.

This lack of call to arms in any respect makes it almost feel like the writer is saying "this is how it is, and there's nothing we can do about it." look to titles like "this is going to hurt" or "a bit of a stretch" for examples of hownthis could have been done.

It's like the writer checks her privilege highlighting all these cases, then shrugs.

A missed opportunity.

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Didn't love this..quite interesting but badly written and the attempt at accents by the narrator was excruciating. I felt that the author was expecting us to sympathise with her, but I just didn't feel it.

Spoilt by narration

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