Ward D

Ward D

Author: Freida McFadden Listening Length: 7h 19m

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hou...

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D amon Sawyer is a thirty-two-year-old man with a history of schizoaffective disorder.

Schizoaffective disorder is a combination of schizophrenia and a mood disorder—in this case, bipolar.

In Sawyer’s case, he had symptoms of schizophrenia including hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking, but also mania.

I’ve never seen such an extensive psychiatric history. There was never anything like this in the charts for Dr. Sleepy’s patients.