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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars

Expert perspectives on health in the prison system

Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
A Fabulous New Tool for Managing Substance Withdrawal in Jails

The guidelines have the potential to cause seismic change in treatment

July 17, 2023
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
The Opioid Treatment Dilemma in Jails

It comes down to funding -- but it's time for that to change

May 20, 2023
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
The 'Bedtime Snack' for Inmates With Diabetes

Where do they get the idea that it's standard medical care?

October 24, 2019
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
What Really Went Wrong at Jeffrey Epstein's Jail

It wasn't just the guards' failure, suggests jail doctor Jeffrey Keller

August 16, 2019
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
The Rules of Verbal Jiu-Jitsu With Patients

How to deflect and defuse manipulative conversations

June 13, 2019
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
9 Types of Manipulative Patients

Know their tactics and be prepared

May 23, 2019
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
Faking It in Jail

Doing nothing with 'fakers' is about as wrong as it gets

December 6, 2018
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
Serotonin Fooled Me Once

Don't get burned like I did

October 11, 2018
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
One Word Docs Need to Know in Prison

This common word makes communicating with patients a little less technical

August 9, 2018
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