Kindle Edition Amazon Amazon Category:  Crime ISBN-10:  1492895202 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 256 ISBN-13: 9781492895206 Price: $6.97 (eBook) What's it Like to be the Doctor in the Supermax Prison? Read the Laugh-Out-Loud Bestseller! 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.    Excerpt “Are you out of your mind?” My wife, Mollie, set aside the half-dried dish, threw the towel into the sink and whirled on me. “A prison? What do you know about prisons? You’re an ear doctor.” “True,” I said, backing up a step, “but I’m a burned-out ear doctor. I can’t do it anymore. I’m just slogging through the day on a chain gang.” I belatedly realized that I’d chosen the wrong metaphor. My kids already knew I was nuts, but they were grown with families of their own. They didn’t get a vote. Mollie, on the other hand, held fifty-one percent of the stock in our marriage. I had to convince the boss. “I just want to do something different. Maybe just for a little while. A few months. Consider it my midlife crisis.” “I do.” I extracted the handcuffs from my back pocket and held them out, jingling. “Could be fun.”

There's a doctor in the Big House, and he has some chillingly funny tales about his patients.
In his chilling and hilarious memoir, Maximum Insecurity: A Doctor in the Supermax, now-seasoned supermax prison physician William Wright shares his initiation into hard truths learned on the job. These include how to respond to ridiculous prisoner requests and lawsuits, the paperwork he came to know intimately, the irritable bowels that seem to accompany prison life, and the nth degree of idiocy in most attempts at manipulation of authority by prison denizens. When it wasn't fun anymore, Wright quit, but he left with some great stories--names changed to protect the guilty.

Interesting, well-written, and funny, this book deserves a wide readership.

-- Carrie Wallace, ForeWord Clarion Reviews

I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in the prison system.
Walking into a facility where the doors are outside of your control, where you're locked in small hallways with no way out, where your every move is viewed and recorded can be a terrifying experience. It's all in a day's work when you're in a supermax facility. Maximum Insecurity will teach you everything you've ever wanted to know and more about the life offenders lead in a supermax and what it's like to work there as well. At times it's terrifying and yet Dr. Wright is able to overcome it. This is his story about working in a prison and about growing as a person throughout the experience.

--Samantha Rivera for Readers' Favorite