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Ofri's thoughtful and honest second book...is equal parts The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Kitchen Confidential. --New York Times Book Review

A pleasure to read, thanks to the author's ability to see her patients as individuals and to form a genuine connection with them. --Kirkus Reviews

Ofri... again displays the same sensitivity and carefully crafted writing that distinguished her first medical memoir (Singular Intimacies)....14 engrossing pieces...--Publisher's Weekly

...exceptional series of introspective essays.... Good writing + good doctor = good reading. --Booklist

...a series of poignant vignettes...A must-read for students of psychology and medicine in need of a lesson in compassion .--Psychology Today

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Anthology Collections and Honors:

Selected by the New York Public Library as a recommended book for young adults.

Chapter 1--Living Will--selected by Susan Orlean for Best American Essays 2005. . The opening of Living Will was featured on Paragraph of the Day as an example of high-quality writing. Read the entire essay, or listen to the author read it.

Chapter 2--Common Ground--selected by Oliver Sacks for Best American Science Writing 2003 (and given Honorable Mention by Anne Fadiman for Best American Essays 2004).

Chapter 10--SAT--included in the college textbook, The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings.

Chapter 14--Tools of the Trade--included in the anthology Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul.
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Incidental Findings opens with a dramatic tale of the tables being turned on Dr. Ofri: She’s had to shed the precious white coat and credentials she worked so hard to earn and enter her own hospital as a patient. She finds herself at the “business end” of a long needle and experiences the very real sense of invasion and panic that routinely visits her patients.

These fifteen intertwined tales follow Dr. Ofri as she travels beyond residency to rural communities, small towns, and eventually back to urban medicine. In “Living Will” a patient feels he has nothing to live for, and Dr. Ofri comes perilously close to agreeing with him. A patient’s painful decision about an abortion in “Common Ground” highlights the vulnerabilities of doctor and patient alike. In “Torment” Dr. Ofri struggles with her feelings toward a patient she dislikes. “The Journey” tells the story of a man meeting his illness for the first time, in the decidedly “un-healing” setting of the Bellevue prison ward. Dr. Ofri faces the challenges and limitations of teaching the next generation of doctors in “Terminal Thoughts.” In the stunning concluding chapter, “Tools of the Trade,” Dr. Ofri’s touch is the last in a woman’s long life

 

Incidental Findings is available in all bookstores from Beacon Press, a nonprofit, independent bookpublisher since 1854. You can also order from Amazon.