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Singular Intimacies : Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Singular Intimacies Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue Author:Danielle Ofri When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of New Yorks legendary Bellevue Hospital as a tentative medical student, she is plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, overworked interns devising audacious strategies to cope with the intensity of a big-city hospital.... more » In a facility where poverty and social strife are as much a part of the pathology as any microbe, it is the medical students and interns who are thrust into the searing intimacy that is the doctor-patient relationship. With each chapter, Ofri introduces us to a new medical crisis and a human being with an intricate and compelling history.« less