Cruelty. Drugs. Suicide. Welcome to the world of the prison doctor!
Cold-blooded, heartbreaking, and instructive—these could describe the cases from patients’ lives and from the history of treatment described by a doctor who considered it her professional duty to help those in custody. All her patients are criminals. Yet despite everything, she remains their treating physician.
Doctor Amanda Brown treated prisoners in scandalous, well-known prisons in Great Britain—first in juvenile correctional institutions, then in the notorious Wormwood Scrubs, and later in the largest women’s prison in Europe, Bronzefield. She saw everything—from filthy protests to surprising cases of pregnancy; from monstrous attacks on inmates to ruthless acts of self-harm.
In these candid, life-affirming memoirs Amanda Brown presents stories and cases that shaped her career, reminding us that most of us would show indifference to those to whom she offered help.