Book Reviews
Publisher’s Weekly
These essays. . . resonate with insight, intelligence, humor and an extraordinary sensitivity to both the patients she treated in this inner-city facility and the staff she worked with. . . .Ofri brings to this memoir a combination of medical information and some very expressive writing. . . The pieces in this powerful collection are tied together by the struggle of a clearly gifted physician to master the complexities of healing.
New England Journal of Medicine
Ofri is a gifted writer. Her vignettes ring with truth, and for any physician or patient who knows the dramas of a big-city hospital they will evoke tears, laughter, and memories. Indeed, any reader, physician or not, will find in Singular Intimacies the essence of becoming and being a doctor.
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“The world of patient and doctor exists in a special sacred space. Danielle Ofri brings us into that place where science and the soul meet. Her vivid and moving prose enriches the mind and turns the heart. We are privileged to journey with her from her days as a student to her emergence as a physician working among those most in need.”
—Jerome Groopman, M.D, author of How Doctors Think
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Reviews of Incidental Findings
New York Times Book Review
Ofri’s thoughtful and honest second book…is equal parts The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Kitchen Confidential.
–Nicholas Confessore
Booklist
…exceptional series of introspective essays…. The musings seem drawn from her very marrow and too personally raw to be originally intended for broad distribution. “In the end,” she concludes, “medicine will always be about one patient and one physician together in one room, connecting through the most basic of communication systems: touch.” Good writing + good doctor = good reading.
New England Journal of Medicine
Incidental Findings is a beautiful book. Ofri has enough faith in her patients, her profession, and herself to tell it all.
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