True Stories – “Medicine in Translation”
Review of “Medicine in Translation” by writer/blogger Elaine Zimbel.
“In person Dr. Danielle Ofri is an impressive woman with a healthy respect for the doctor/patient relationship. She was guest speaker at a McGill University seminar entitled “Singular Intimacies: literature as a bridge between doctor and patient”, a topic which particularly interested me since I had given courses of my own design at the McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement about “The Literature of Doctors”.
Her message was about how important it is for doctors to listen to their patients’ stories, and of course I couldn’t agree more….”