After
three decades as a successful ear surgeon, William Wright, MD is bored
beyond belief. He dabbles with retirement, but finds idleness
infuriating. He has to do something.
Then
he sees an ad for a doctor’s position from the Colorado Department of
Corrections at a supermax prison. Now that, he thinks, would be
different. His wife has some thoughts on the matter too. She thinks her
husband just lost his mind and is on a collision course with a prison
shiv.
After
his first day on the job, he wonders if she wasn’t onto something. His
first patient is an arrogant, callous youth convicted of five
cold-blooded murders. Dr. Wright has to steel himself not to bolt.
Nothing
prepares a doctor for life at the Colorado State Penitentiary. He
quickly discovers treating maximum security convicts is like treating
recalcitrant murderous four-year-olds. Always willing to threaten their
doctors with bodily harm, they are more interested in scamming drugs
than treatment.
Told
with self-depreciating humor and scathing wit, Maximum Insecurity
describes Dr. Wright’s adventures practicing medicine in a supermax
correctional facility without, he’s glad to say, getting killed even
once.
Maximum Insecurity: A Doctor in the Supermax by William Wright M.D.
Rating – PG-13
Genre – Non Fiction
4.4 (21 reviews)
Free until 4 February 2014
