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050 00 R692|b.O35 2003 
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100 1  Ofri, Danielle. 
245 10 Singular intimacies :|bbecoming a doctor at Bellevue /
       |cDanielle Ofri. 
264  1 Boston, Mass. :|bBeacon Press,|c[2003] 
264  4 |c©2003 
300    246 pages ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Possessing her words -- Drawing blood -- AA battery -- 
       Stuck -- Change of heart -- July 1st -- The professor of 
       denial -- The burden of knowledge -- In charge -- Time of 
       death, 3:27 A.M. -- Immunity -- Finding the person -- 
       Positive -- M & M -- Intensive care -- Merced -- 
       Possessing her words. 
520    Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by 
       immersion at New York's 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. When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of this 250
       -year-old institution as a tentative medical student, she 
       is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban 
       medicine: mysterious illnesses, patients speaking any one 
       of a dozen languages, overworked interns devising 
       audacious strategies to cope with the feverish intensity 
       of a big-city hospital. Yet the emphasis of Singular 
       Intimacies is not so much on the arduous hours in medical 
       training (which certainly exist here) but on the evolution
       of an instinct for healing. In a hospital without the 
       luxury of private physicians, where patients lack 
       resources both financial and societal, where poverty and 
       social strife are as much a part of the pathology as any 
       microbe, it is the medical students and interns who are 
       thrust into the searing intimacy that is the doctor-
       patient relationship. In each memorable chapter, Ofri's 
       progress toward becoming an experienced healer introduces 
       not just a patient in medical crisis but a human being 
       with an intricate and compelling history. Ofri learns to 
       navigate the tangled vulnerabilities of doctor and patient,
       not simply to battle the disease. In the tradition of 
       Abraham Verghese and Atul Gawande, a gripping memoir of 
       learning medicine in the trenches. Dr. Danielle Ofri is an
       attending physician in the medical clinic at Bellevue, 
       with an academic appointment at NYU. She is the co-founder
       and editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, and 
       her essays have been published in over a dozen literary 
       and medical journals; one chapter of this book was 
       selected by Stephen Jay Gould for The Best American Essays
       of 2002 and received the Missouri Review Editor's Prize 
       for Nonfiction. She is also associate chief editor of the 
       award-winning textbook The Bellevue Guide to Outpatient 
       Medicine. 
600 10 Ofri, Danielle. 
610 22 Bellevue Hospital. 
650  0 Women physicians|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Physicians|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Women physicians|xTraining of. 
650  0 Medical history taking|vAnecdotes. 
650 12 Medical History Taking|vPersonal Narratives. 
650 22 Preceptorship|vPersonal Narratives. 
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