The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review is a collection of selected writings from the celebrated literary journal. Danielle Ofri and the BLR editors have culled poetry, fiction and nonfiction that offer a fresh perspective on the literature of medicine, preceded by a foreword from Sherwin Nulandf. The book is accompanied by a detailed study guide for teaching and reading groups. (Bellevue Literary Press, 2008)

Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine is Danielle Ofri's latest collection of essays. In Incidental Findings, Ofri has finished her medical training and is learning through practice to become a more rounded healer. The book 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. (Beacon Press, 2005)

Chapter 1--Living Will--was selected by Susan Orlean for Best American Essays 2005.

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

Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country—and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. Beacon Press, 2003; Penguin, 2004.

Chapter 15--Merced--was chosen by Steven Jay Gould for Best American Essays 2002, and was awarded the Editor's Prize for Nonfiction by The Missouri Review.

See Danielle Ofri read the chapter Intensive Care or read a short, but compelling, excerpt: Possessing Her Words.

Ofri is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the Bellevue Literary Review, the first literary journal to arise from the halls of a hospital. The BLR publishes poetry and prose that touch upon relationships to the human body, illness, health and healing.

Danielle Ofri is a frequent commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. Listen to some of her essays:

*Common Ground* was selected by Oliver Sacks for Best American Science Writing, 2003.

The Bellevue Guide to Outpatient Medicine: Innovative textbook of medicine written by the doctors of the Bellevue Medical Clinic. Best Medical Textbook of 2001 award from American Medical Writers Association. Eds: Nate Link, Michael Tanner, Danielle Ofri, Lloyd Wasserman, BMJ, 2001

This Side of Doctoring: Anthology of essays, stories, and poems about women in medicine. "Readers will enjoy discovering works of contributors...Danielle Ofri. and others whose body of literature demands attention and celebration." (Annals of Internal Medicine) Ed. Eliza Lo Chin, hardcover: Sage 2002;. paperback Oxford, 2003

Danielle Ofri has written many book reviews and essays. Here are a few to read:

Other writings (full text not available online)