Danielle Ofri
photo by Joon Park

 

 

 

Press and Interviews

Washington Post

August 3, 2003

Creative Writing: Old Balm in a New Forum

Bedlam is breaking out once again at Bellevue Hospital's afternoon clinic, as the late-shows, the unscheduled and the emergency room's overflows come in search of cures. Crisp-coated interns and residents try to jump-start the examining room computers as patients begin to recite their ailments.

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New York Times

Oct 1, 2002

 

Literary Review at Bellevue? Believe It

"Just tell me a story," Dr. Danielle Ofri admonishes her medical students and interns at morning rounds. To Dr. Ofri, an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital Center, a part-time writer and the editor in chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, every patient's history is a mystery story, a narrative that unfolds full of surprises.(full article not available online)

National Public Radio

All Things Considered

July 15, 2003

Doctors' Stories For a Bellevue Physician, Listening -- and Writing -- Are Key

At the end of a long day, your whole body aches," Dr. Ofri tells Melissa Block. "I think part of that physical ache is from holding all of those stories, because patients are entrusting you with their stories -- their pain, their life. For a lot our patients, they have no one else."

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The Journal News

May 13, 2003

Internist's essays shed light on a resident's life

In her new book, Dr. Danielle Ofri throws open the grimy glass doors to the nation's oldest public hospital, and ushers us into the "lumbering behemoth" she fondly calls the "bizarre Bellevue world."

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The New Scientist (England)

January 11, 2003

The Word Doctor

[Dance and writing] are all different ways of expression. I am definitely able to find expression in medicine because I enjoy my connection with my patients. When a patient walks out feeling better or feeling somehow fulfilled, that is expression. Writing and dance are just different ways of doing it. Sometimes even words are strangling, and to dance is a blessed relief.

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New York Times, June 29, 2003, Book Excerpt

The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), May 9, 2003, Book Excerpt

Der Speigel (Germany), February 10, 2003, Kluger werden mit: Danielle Ofri

Courier International (France), Soigner les maux par les mots

Lifestyle & Travel for Physicians, March/April 2003, Belles Lettres

Poet's & Writers Magazine, May 2001, Well Versed in Medicine