http://danielleofri.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:16:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1184 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1184#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:16:42 +0000 Danielle Ofri http://danielleofri.com/?p=1184 Could ‘runner’s high’ chemical help curb overeating? by Danielle Ofri CNN.com September 6, 2010 As a primary care internist, my practice spans the common adult ailments—diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, arthritis. It is hard not to avoid the difficult truth that obesity, while perhaps not causing all of these illness, certainly exacerbates them [...]]]> http://danielleofri.com/?feed=rss2&p=1184 0 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1177 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1177#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:31:45 +0000 Danielle Ofri http://danielleofri.com/?p=1177 What does your doctor hear when you talk? by Danielle Ofri published on CNN.com August 23, 2010 Whenever a patient asks me about the side effects of a particular medication, I point to the very long roster of symptoms listed for the drug. “It’s anything any patient has ever experienced,” I say, then try to help [...]]]> http://danielleofri.com/?feed=rss2&p=1177 0 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1169 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1169#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:09:17 +0000 Danielle Ofri http://danielleofri.com/?p=1169 Quality measures are all the rage now. Insurance companies and HMOs love them because they see them as ways to save money. Hospitals and medical organizations are flocking to them because they are an appealing way to measure and possibly improve medical care. The zeitgeist of “pay for performance” is in the air, and quality [...]]]> http://danielleofri.com/?feed=rss2&p=1169 0 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1166 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1166#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:03:21 +0000 Danielle Ofri http://danielleofri.com/?p=1166 Ashamed To Admit It: Owning Up To Medical Error By DANIELLE OFRI, M.D. Published: Aug 3, 2010 Health Affairs journal (also in Washington Post). Precisely two weeks after completing my medical internship, I proceeded to nearly kill a patient. July marked the start of my second year of residency at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital, and it was my [...]]]> http://danielleofri.com/?feed=rss2&p=1166 0 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1158 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1158#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:23:49 +0000 Danielle Ofri http://danielleofri.com/?p=1158 Not on the Doctor’s Checklist, but Touch Matters By DANIELLE OFRI, M.D. Published: Aug 3, 2010 New York Times. A new patient comes to my office, a healthy middle-aged woman. The medical assistant has already documented her normal blood pressure. Of our allotted 15 minutes, I spend more than two-thirds talking with her. I ask about her personal medical history, [...]]]> http://danielleofri.com/?feed=rss2&p=1158 0 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1153 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1153#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:06:00 +0000 Danielle Ofri http://danielleofri.com/?p=1153 When Unemployed Means Unhealthy Too. By DANIELLE OFRI, M.D. Published: July 29, 2010 New York Times “I used to have a doctor,” she said, matter-of-factly, “but when I got laid off six months ago I lost my insurance.” Ms. C. shifted in her chair while I took notes during our first medical visit. “So I didn’t [...]]]> http://danielleofri.com/?feed=rss2&p=1153 0 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1150 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1150#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:03:29 +0000 Danielle Ofri http://danielleofri.com/?p=1150 “Ofri’s books… are all about her relationships with patients. The operative word there is “relationships”: Doctors aren’t supposed to have them. But good doctors do. The best doctors relate to the people they diagnose and treat. They listen to them, talk with them, learn their [...]]]> http://danielleofri.com/?feed=rss2&p=1150 0 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1145 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1145#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:08:04 +0000 Danielle Ofri http://danielleofri.com/?p=1145 Danielle’s new essay on doctors facing our own prejudices with obese patients, on a new website called “The Responsibility Project.” “I had to be honest—I was uncomfortable with my new patient, a woman in her late thirties, in my office for a general medical check-up. Ms. M. was petite in stature, but [...]]]> http://danielleofri.com/?feed=rss2&p=1145 0 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1129 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1129#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:05:22 +0000 Danielle Ofri http://danielleofri.com/?p=1129 [["Julia B."--from my book "Medicine in Translation"--is featured in a Village Voice cover story by Shefali Kulkarni.]] “It began as a cold that Julia Amparo-Alvarado couldn’t seem to shake. One January night in 2003 when her boss called, asking her to come in for a night shift of janitorial work at the Brooklyn [...]]]> http://danielleofri.com/?feed=rss2&p=1129 0 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1123 http://danielleofri.com/?p=1123#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:10:12 +0000 Danielle Ofri http://danielleofri.com/?p=1123 How many hours can a doctor work? The residency regulators are back. About ten years ago, the national organization that accredits residency programs (ACGME) set out its first guidelines about how many hours a doctor-in-training can work. Interns and residents finally achieved the vaunted 80-hour workweek. (New York State was 15 years ahead on this, having [...]]]> http://danielleofri.com/?feed=rss2&p=1123 0