Singular_Intimacies:_Becoming_a_Doctor_at_Bellevue

Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue

Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue

Collection of essays by Danielle Ofri


Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue is a collection of essays by physician-writer Danielle Ofri,[1] detailing the experience of medical training in America’s oldest public hospital.[2] Ofri writes about being an untested medical student, pitched from academia into Bellevue Hospital, eventually making it to the other side as a doctor.

The essay Merced was chosen by Stephen Jay Gould for his book Best American Essays 2002,[3] and was also awarded the Editor's Prize for Nonfiction by The Missouri Review.[4]

Ofri is a practicing internist at Bellevue Hospital and the editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review.[5] She is also the author of Incidental Findings: Lessons from my Patients in the Art of Medicine. [6]


References

  1. Ofri, Danielle (2003-04-15). Singular Intimacies Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7252-3.
  2. "Bellevue Hospital Center". Archived from the original on 2011-10-31. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
  3. Ofri, Danielle (2002). "Merced". Best American Essays. 2002: 237–252.
  4. "Previous Contest Winners". The Missouri Review. 2004-09-21. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
  5. "Bellevue Literary Review". Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2007-10-25.
  6. Ofri, Danielle (2006-04-15). Incidental Findings Lessons From My Patients in the Art of Medicine. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-7267-7.

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