Singular Intimacies
Collection of essays by Danielle Ofri
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Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue is a collection of essays by physician-writer Danielle Ofri,[1] detailing the experience of medical training in America’s oldest public hospital.[2] Ofri writes about being an untested medical student, pitched from academia into Bellevue Hospital, eventually making it to the other side as a doctor.
The essay Merced was chosen by Stephen Jay Gould for his book 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]