The fine print of the 2010 Health Care Reform bill is still being analyzed. Shortcomings and limitations are being uncovered. But a new report from the Commonwealth Fund showed that there will be immense and immediate gains for young adults. Most young adults “fall off” of their parents’ health insurance plans once they complete their... »
By DANIELLE OFRI, M.D. Published: May 17, 2010 New York Times “My patient’s body was unclaimed, and it had already been sent for burial by the time I learned of his death on a Thursday afternoon. It had happened on Saturday, at another hospital. He hadn’t left any next-of-kin contact, and it had taken... »
Published: June 29, 2003 New York Times excerpt from SINGULAR INTIMACIES: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue By Danielle Ofri (Beacon Press) ”Nine P.M.,” somebody shouted. ”Rikers bus rollin’ in!” I stepped out of the Bellevue E.R. into the chilly spring night to see what the excitement was. Just pulling in was a school bus, the kind I’d... »
By DANIELLE OFRI December 25, 2005 New York Times: Christmas Day FICTION “Bitter winds churned up First Avenue and tore through the pathetically thin scrubs that Bellevue doled out to its interns. The December sky glowered the same leaden-green color of the bile that Dr. Kamal Singh was siphoning from the gut of Mr.... »
by Mike Reicher January 4, 2010 New York Times “A defective heart, a child detained by border guards — Julia Barquero had already had her struggles. But now her physician at Bellevue Hospital Center, Dr. Danielle Ofri, was trying to explain to Ms. Barquero that she could not receive a heart transplant... »
by Danielle Ofri Feb 15, 2010 Los Angeles Times “…Though city hospitals invoke images of charity patients from teeming, poverty-stricken slums, of substandard, last-resort medical care, the reality is quite different. Bellevue Hospital is synonymous in many people’s minds with “urban medicine” — something that is not quite its own specialty yet but... »
Danielle Ofri’s articles in the Los Angeles Times Note: articles in the Los Angeles Times do not have full free access (at this time). When a patient dismisses the data by Danielle Ofri Dec 28, 2009 Los Angeles Times “…(And when politicians start to weigh in, you can be sure that the hard data have been left far behind.) The... »
By DANIELLE OFRI, M.D. Published: December 7, 2004 New York Times “Carmen came to my clinic because of a scalp condition. She was 37 years old, slender, casually but fashionably dressed, with the broad bill of a red baseball cap obscuring her face. Thick, silky black hair slid out from... »
By DANIELLE OFRI, M.D. Published: February 8, 2005 New York Times “Despite three long years of high school French, the best I could come up with was “Je m’appelle Dr. Ofri.” Mr. M. – I guessed he was from Africa – smiled politely. No doubt he was accustomed to the challenges of communication here,... »
By DINITIA SMITH Published: October 2, 2002 New York Times // ”Just tell me a story,” Dr. Danielle Ofri admonishes her medical students and interns at morning rounds. To Dr. Ofri, an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital Center, a part-time writer and the editor in chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, every patient’s history... »
