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Summary: great book
Review: Danielle's book was difficult to put down. Reading it, I felt I got a realistic picture of her life as an intern. It is inspiring to know people like her practice medicine. Her book humanizes the medical experience.
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Summary: Touching
Review: I am currently an intern in my first year of training at Bellevue. This book was given to me as a present upon my recent graduation from medical school. Although internship does not provide much time for pleasure reading, I am very glad I stayed up at night to read this book. Dr. Ofri is wise and caring. Her willingness to share her insecurities and imperfections is rare in the world of medicine where admissions of weakness are rare. Unlike a number of other senior and jaded doctors I have met, Dr. Ofri has not lost the caring and excitement for medicine everyone has when they begin medical school. Anyone involved in the medical profession will immediately relate to these aspects of the book. For readers not involved in medicine, the book will still be wonderful to read. It is beautifully written, and all readers will be able to relate to the human drama Dr. Ofri presents. Although I have yet to meet Dr. Ofri in person, I hope that when I am done with my training at Bellevue, I will have a fraction of her passion and compassion.
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Summary: Some unforgettable patients! And patience.
Review: I can't stop thinking about the patients that Danielle Ofri so exquisitely portrays in Singular Intimacies ... even the grumpy or chronically misbehaving ones! What that tells me is that these are portraits of people who were truly cared for by their doctor. How utterly refreshing to get this perspective, given the prevalence of cynicism about the quality of care and consideration provided by most doctors. As Dr. Ofri's patient, you're a person, not just a body filling a bed, or the name at the top of an order for medications or tests. I also gained respect for the mystery-solving aspect of diagnosing what ails the patient. If Dr. Ofri can't be my doctor, I would hope that my doctor would have read her book during their training!
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Summary: Heartwarming
Review: I couldn't put the book down. Danielle is a wonderful, gifted writer who made me feel as if I was right there with her on rounds. She wrote about people and the doctor patient relationship , not about medical jargon,procedures and tests. It was conforting to see how much a doctor cares about her patients.
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Summary: Compassionate and Self-Deprectating
Review: I enjoyed both the content and the manner in which it was constructed. I found it had a really nice mix of human interest, medicine and self-deprecating humor. It was also interesting on a more psychological level as how humans react under stress and the small deviations (which have major ramifications for patients) that they can affect while operating within a much larger system. While the stress and the adaptation of the job was familiar to me, the additional pressures of New York and a crumbling health system created a very volatile backdrop. The book successfully highlights the role of a caring stressed doctor within a very unmanageable system.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I have read many "becoming a doctor" books and some are interesting but are written by people who have no business writing a book! This one was definitely an exception. The author was a wonderful writer and the book was delightful. A definite must-read!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I have read many "becoming a doctor" books and some are interesting but are written by people who have no business writing a book! This one was definitely an exception. The author was a wonderful writer and the book was delightful. A definite must-read!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I have read many "becoming a doctor" books and some are interesting but are written by people who have no business writing a book! This one was definitely an exception. The author was a wonderful writer and the book was delightful. A definite must-read!
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: I knew that Danielle Ofri was an outstanding editor (if you haven't read the Bellevue Literary Review, edited by Ofri, run out a get a copy--it's one of the best journals being published today), now I learn that she's an outstanding author as well. Reading Singular Intimacies I found myself weeping, cheering, and just plain enjoying. She captures perfectly the transition from medical student to physician, the internal and external changes, the growing sense of expertise, and the arrival of true caring. Along the way she reveals herself as fully human and compassionate. Among the many currently popular books by physicians, this one stands out.
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Summary: An Intimate Portrait from a Human Physician
Review: Singular Intimacies is a book of great power and grace, a book written from the heart. Danielle Ofri takes readers inside the world of Bellevue Hospital, but, more important, she invites us into her mind and soul. Written with great compassion, wit, warmth, and grit, this book presents us with the humanity at the center of medicine. Thank heavens for doctors and writers like Danielle Ofri. I can't begin to tell you how deeply this book moved me. I can only invite you to experience it for yourself.
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