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Danielle Ofri
Danielle Ofri is a doctor at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Her newest book is "What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine" (Beacon Press, 2013). She is an associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine and has cared for patients at Bellevue... show more

Danielle Ofri is a doctor at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Her newest book is "What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine" (Beacon Press, 2013). She is an associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine and has cared for patients at Bellevue for over two decades. Her other books are "Incidental Findings," "Medicine in Translation," and the classic "Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue." She is a regular contributor to the New York Times' Op-Ed page and Well blog. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review--the first literary magazine to arise from a medical center.Danielle lives in New York City with three very active kids, an aging lab-mutt, and the forever challenges of the cello.Here's her TEDMED talk on Deconstructing Perfection: https://youtu.be/CaSv741GjlgAll of Danielle's articles can be found at: www.danielleofri.comTwitter: @danielleofriFacebook: Danielle-Ofri-Writer(Photo Credits: Joon Park and John Abbot)
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Books by the Lake
Books by the Lake rated it 14 years ago
Though I will soon forget many of the stories, essays, and poems in The Bellevue Literary Review, Volume 7, Number 1, here are a few I think deserve to be mentioned and remembered. "You Never Know" by Pamela Hull is her observations on living with an aging body and a still-lively libido. Another non...
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debnance rated it 18 years ago
Ofri examines all the parts of being a medical doctor that disturb her in the series of essays that make up this book. Why do doctors ignore the parts of life of their patients that take place outside the hospital? What is true about the details patients report to their doctors? How does a doctor de...
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