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Category: Medicine in Translation
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Links to lots of good reading and listening around the web.
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A look at recent Beacon media mentions.
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Danielle Ofri appreciated a pro-immigration this past Independence Day.
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Beacon authors are collecting laurels and starting important conversations.
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Danielle Ofri, one of many doctors writing about their experiences with patients, discusses her own approach to ensuring patient privacy.
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Danielle Ofri is a physician at Bellevue, a public hospital. Recently, she found herself interacting with Bellevue not as a doctor but rather as the parent of a patient.
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Today's post is from Danielle Ofri, writer and practicing internist at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. She is the editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. Her newest book is Medicine in Translation: Journeys with my Patients. This post originally appeared at her Medicine in Translation blog at Psychology Today. “Angelina Gomez,” the medical assistant hollers…
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If asked what a doctor does, most people would probably come up with the standard description of diagnosing and treating disease. But that turns out to be only a part of the job, often a very small part.