A collection of essays by physician-writer Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD. [1] Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue is the story of medical training in America’s oldest public hospital. [2] Ofri writes of the experience of being an untested medical student, pitched from academia into Bellevue Hospital, eventually making it to the other side as a doctor.
The essay Merced from this book was chosen by Stephen Jay Gould for Best American Essays 2002 [3], and was also awarded the Editor's Prize for Nonfiction by The Missouri Review. [4]
Ofri is a practicing internist at Bellevue Hospital and the editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. [5] She is also the author of Incidental Findings: Lessons from my Patients in the Art of Medicine. [6]