{"id":867,"date":"2014-10-29T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=867"},"modified":"2014-10-29T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:13:10","slug":"singular-intimacies-becoming-a-doctor-at-bellevue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/singular-intimacies-becoming-a-doctor-at-bellevue\/","title":{"rendered":"Singular intimacies: becoming a doctor at Bellevue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"singular<\/a>Check out this item, featured in our “What’s New Wednesdays” column – Review originally published in\u00a0Library Journal<\/em>, 2003, by James Swanton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“As Ofri related in this marvelous book, becoming a doctor is a complex process. The author, who trained at New York City’s famed inner-city, 250-year-old Bellevue Hospital and cofounded\u00a0Bellevue Literary Review<\/em>, relates cases that\u00a0evolve around gravely ill patients who die in stark and painful circumstances. Her gifted storytelling discloses a variety of patients, their medical needs, and the doctor-hospital-patient interface. How does “the System” make a doctor? The answer is still a big mystery (as David Duncan’s Residents also makes clear). New, book-smart graduates must sometimes feel like impostors as they take up their residencies, but a few years later they discover that they have become doctors. It is this alchemy that Ofri’s well-crafted prose successfully exposes. Her sometimes stressful and sad stories reveal that the connections made by a resident-physician with patients is a demanding part of medical training, a part that finally makes becoming a physician uplifting. [A chapter was selected for The Best American Essays of 2002 and won the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize for Nonfiction.–Ed.].”<\/p>\n

Check it out today<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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