What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

By Danielle Ofri MD

Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health? Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool...

What Doctors Feel

By Danielle Ofri

“A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician” that explores the doctor-patient relationship, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors’ emotions impact...

Incidental Findings

By Danielle Ofri

Incidental Findings

By Danielle Ofri

In Singular Intimacies, which the New England Journal of Medicine said captured the'essence of becoming and being a doctor,' Danielle Ofri led us into the hectic, constantly challenging world of bi...

What doctors feel

By Danielle Ofri

"By shedding light on how doctors cope with the stresses and responsibilities of patients, colleagues, lawyers, and their personal lives, she explains why it is important that patients know how emo...

What patients say what doctors hear

By Danielle Ofri

"Patients, anxious to convey their symptoms, feel an urgency to "make their case" to their doctors. Doctors, under pressure to be efficient, multitask while patients speak and often miss the key el...

Singular Intimacies

By Danielle Ofri

A “finely gifted writer” shares “fifteen brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency” (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The M...

Medicine in translation

By Danielle Ofri

Medicine in Translation

By Danielle Ofri MD

From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital  For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared f...

When We Do Harm

By Danielle Ofri MD, Danielle Ofri, Ofri MD, Danielle

Medical mistakes are more pervasive than we think. How can we improve outcomes? An acclaimed MD’s rich stories and research explore patient safety.Patients enter the medical system with faith that...