The Prison Doctor

· HarperCollins UK
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‘Extraordinary’ Daily Mail

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.

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4.7
177 reviews
Peter Cooper
December 2, 2019
A pretty good read and insight into the medical side of prisons. However the ending felt a bit like a wet firework, it wanted to take off but never did.
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Celia Lightfoot
September 17, 2019
Laughter, tears, hope, despair. . The whole package. An insight into lives filled with horror and abuse that most of us cannot begin to imagine, told with genuine compassion and feelings for the inmates. I highly recommend this book to see how the other half lives. An inputdownable read.
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Rachael Walters
June 22, 2019
loved reading this book. As a MH student nurse ive done a prison placement and loved it beyond words. I can see this being a place i would also find meaning and enjoyment from. Was great to read a doctors perspective.
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About the author

Dr Amanda Brown is a GP at the largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield. Before transferring to work in prisons, Amanda was a regular NHS GP but gave up her practice because she disliked the way the job’s focus has shifted. She went on to work at a teenage detention centre, before moving on to Wormwood Scrubs and then finally to Bronzefield where she continues to work. The Prison Doctor is her first book.

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