The waiting area in Bellevue Hospital was full. Every chair was taken. But the people kept streaming in. More chairs had to be brought in. It wasn’t clear if the room could accommodate everyone. This wasn’t the emergency room or the clinic waiting area, however. It was the scene of the Bellevue Literary Review poetry... »
Sunday October 25th at 5 pm is the seventeenth Bellevue Literary Review reading. Every six months, more than 100 people gather in the nation’s oldest public hospital to hear poetry and prose. Bellevue Hospital is now a fixture on the literary circuit. All readings are free and open to the public. Read more about... »
If asked what a doctor does, most people would probably come up with the standard description of diagnosing and treating disease, usually while wearing an ill-fitting white coat. Before I entered practice, even during my medical training that probably would have been my answer too. But my years in the trenches of real medicine have... »
Danielle Ofri interviewed on CNN concerning undocumented immigrants who need dialysis. See the video. »
