Psychward
After eight years as head of a big-city emergency room, Seager ( Breathe, Little Boy, Breathe ) switched his speciality to psychiatry and now is completing a residency at a Los Angeles ghetto hospital. The book in hand is an account of his year as an intern. A gifted writer, Seager conveys wth power and sensitivity the tragic, hair-raising, sometimes hilarious goings-on within "The Bin," portraying with sure strokes its staff members and patients--a murderous schizophrenic, a man who believed he was (and indeed seemed to be) pregnant and children hallucinating from cocaine that had been forced on them by sexually abusive adults. In reaching toward "the core of sanity" which he maintains is buried in all mental patients, the author unashamedly became involved emotionally, and remains indignant at the outside world's hostility--or, at best indifference--to the plight of these "modern lepers" who now swell the ranks of the homeless.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.