The Prison Doctor: meet Amanda Brown

Should I Delete That?

Alex Light & Em Clarkson

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, the girls are joined by Dr Amanda Brown. Twenty years ago, Amanda was content working as a GP at a quiet, suburban family practice, with many patients she'd seen throughout their entire lives. One day, after a shock meeting, she decided to leave the practice with no idea what was coming next. Out of the blue, she was asked if she wanted to take a shift at a prison. Despite never even thinking doctors worked in prisons, Amanda went on to have the most fulfilling years in her career as a prison doctor. She worked in both men's and women's prisons and talks us through their differences. She also shares why women are being failed in the prison system and how she only ever once had to ring the panic button.

You can purchase Amanda's books The Prison Doctor, Women Inside and The Final Sentence here

Email us at shouldideletethatpod@gmail.com

Edited by Daisy Grant

Music by Alex Andrew

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1:16.4	So when I was asked to work with the drug users on the wing on a regular basis to help them once they settled into prison I thought no thank you people are going to be so nasty to deal with but not at all once they'd settle down
1:21.4	These were the women I got to know and love over seven odd years and miss them.
1:27.2	Hi everyone and welcome back to should I delete that. I'm M Clarkson.
1:30.5	I'm Alex Light. How you doing? I don't think you're doing very well.
1:34.0	Not doing well at all out. I've got a bad bad start.
1:36.5	So they're really bad bad and it's mostly my fault but I don't want to dwell on that, okay?
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