BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Cook Memorial Public Library District X-WR-CALNAME:Cook Memorial Public Library District BEGIN:VEVENT UID:371221f9-14cd-4cb4-9909-fc6727f11f95 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260904T181805Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230602T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230602T153000 SUMMARY:Nonfiction Book Club LOCATION:Cook Park Library\, Libertyville\nCook Park Library\, Libertyvill e X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cook Park Library\, Libert yville;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Cook Park Library\, Libertyville:geo:42.2 87088,-87.956164 GEO:42.287088;-87.956164 DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss THE OTHER DR. GILMER by Benjamin Gilmer. Fo r a copy of the book and the Zoom link\, contact Natalie at ntorres@cookli b.org. DROP IN.\nhttps://cooklib.libnet.info/event/8156621 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

A rural physician learns that a former doc tor at his clinic committed a shocking crime\, leading him to uncover an u ndiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful tr ue story expanding on one of \;the \;most popular This American Li fe episodes of all time. When family physician \;Dr. Benjamin \;Gi lmer \;began working at \;the \;Cane Creek clinic in rural Nor th Carolina\, he was following in \;the \;footsteps of a man with& nbsp\;the \;same last name. His predecessor\, \;Dr. Vince \;Gi lmer\, was beloved by his patients and community--right up until \;the  \;shocking moment when he strangled his ailing father and then return ed to \;the \;clinic for a regular day of work after \;the&nbs p\;murder. He'd been in prison for nearly a decade by \;the \;time Benjamin arrived\, but Vince's patients would still tell Benjamin they co uldn't believe \;the other Dr. Gilmer \;was capable of such violen ce. \;The \;more Benjamin looked into Vince's case\, \;the&nbs p\;more he knew that something was wrong. Vince knew\, too. He complained from \;the \;time he was arrested of his "SSRI brain\," referring to withdrawal from his anti-depressant medication. When Benjamin visited V ince in prison\, he met a man who was obviously fighting his own mind\, co nstantly twitching and veering off into nonsensical tangents. Enlisting Th is American Life journalist Sarah Koenig\, Benjamin resolved to get Vince& nbsp\;the \;help he needed. But time and again\, \;the \;pair would come up against a prison system that cared little about \;the&nb sp\;mental health of its inmates--despite an estimated one third of them s uffering from an untreated mental illness. In \;The Other Dr. Gilmer\, Dr. Benjamin \;Gilmer \;tells of how a caring man was overcome by a perfect storm of rare health conditions\, leading to an unimaginable cr ime. Rather than get treatment\, Vince \;Gilmer \;was sentenced to life in prison--a life made all \;the \;worse by his untrustworth y brain and prison and government officials who dismissed his situation. A large percentage of imprisoned Americans are suffering from mental illnes s when they commit their crimes and continue to suffer\, untreated\, in pr ison. In a country with \;the \;highest incarceration rates in&nbs p\;the \;world\, \;Dr. Benjamin \;Gilmer \;argues that som e crimes need to be healed rather than punished.

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