Intensive Care: A Doctor’s Journey (eBook)

A journey through the inner world of medicine.

This eBook original from Beacon Press exhibits Danielle Ofri’s range and skill as a storyteller as well as her empathy and astuteness as a doctor. Her vivid prose brings the reader into bustling hospitals, tense exam rooms, and Ofri’s own life, giving an up-close look at the fast-paced, life-and-death drama of becoming a doctor. She tells of a teenager uncertain of his future who comes to the clinic with a stomach complaint but for whom Dr. Ofri sees that the most useful “treatment” she can offer him is SAT tutoring. She writes of a desperate struggle to communicate with a critically ill patient who only speaks Mandarin, of a doctor whose experience in the NICU leaves her paralyzed with PTSD, and of her own fears of making fatal errors. Through these stories, Intensive Care offers poignant insight into the medical world, and into the hearts and minds of doctors and their patients. These stories are drawn from four of Ofri’s books.