{"id":24244,"date":"2026-03-25T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/book-talk-freida-mcfadden-ward-d\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:59:08","slug":"book-talk-freida-mcfadden-ward-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-freida-mcfadden-ward-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Freida McFadden, \u2018Ward D\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"24244\" class=\"elementor elementor-24244\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74fd23db e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"74fd23db\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5a56e2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c5a56e2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Amy Brenner is a second-year medical student whose ultimate goals in terms of specialization are not clear, except that she knows that she does not want to be a psychiatrist.Eight years ago, when she was 16, her best friend Jade Carpenter had been confined to a mental hospital, and Amy visited <a href=\"http:\/\/her.It\">her.It<\/a> was an experience that left a lasting scar on her memory.<\/p><p>However, Pauline Walter, Administrative Assistant to the Chief of Psychiatry has assigned Amy to an overnight rotation in Ward D, a locked and secure psychiatric unit at the hospital.Amy dreads the assignment but knows that she must complete it to maintain her standing in her class.<\/p><p>In Ward D (2023, 337 pages in soft-cover format), Ms. McFadden takes us, step-by-step through Amy\u2019s evening of anxiety, fear, and bone-chilling horror.The anxiety is evident when Amy enters the ward and the steel door with a coded electronic lock slams shut behind her. She\u2019s there until morning, with no way <a href=\"http:\/\/out.To\">out.To<\/a> make things worse, her ex-boyfriend Cameron who dropped her because he had to study for a board exam, is on the same rotation, having swapped shifts with another student.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Brenner is a second-year medical student whose ultimate goals in terms of specialization are not clear, except that she knows that she does not want to be a psychiatrist.Eight years ago, when she was 16, her best friend Jade Carpenter had been confined to a mental hospital, and Amy visited her.It was an experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-24244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44035,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24244\/revisions\/44035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}