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Danielle Ofri
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Washington Post
August 3, 2003
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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
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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)
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National Public Radio
All Things Considered
July 15, 2003
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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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to the full interview
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The Journal News
May 13, 2003
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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
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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
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The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education),
May 9, 2003, Book Excerpt
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Der Speigel (Germany), February 10, 2003, Kluger
werden mit: Danielle Ofri
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Courier International (France), Soigner les maux
par les mots
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Lifestyle & Travel for Physicians, March/April
2003, Belles Lettres
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Poet's & Writers Magazine, May 2001,
Well
Versed in Medicine
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