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NPR’s ShortWave podcast
Emily Kwong interviews NPR Arts Reporter Neda Ulaby about her story on Danielle Ofri and BLR’s 20th Anniversary for the ShortWave Podcast. More
NPR’s Morning Edition
NPR’s Neda Ulaby interviews Danielle Ofri and Celeste Ng on “Morning Edition†about BLR’s 20th Anniversary (and how a literary journal came to be founded in a storied public hospital). More
Danielle Ofri on NPR’s “Fresh Air”
Danielle Ofri interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air More
Danielle Ofri discusses Oliver Sacks on NPR’s ‘Science Friday’
Danielle Ofri discusses Oliver Sack’s memoir “On the Move” with Maria Popova and Annie Minoff on NPR’s Science Friday. More
Danielle Ofri on NPR’s ‘Only Human’
Danielle Ofri joins host Mary Harris of “Only Human” to share doctors’ confessions. In this case, Danielle “confesses” what it was like to be a patient. More
Keeping Perspective on Ebola
Irrational fears are highly contagious, and there’s no vaccine for that. So just like in the hospital, we need to use universal precautions. Be skeptical of hype. Get your facts from reliable sources and keep things in perspective. More
NPR Interview with Brian Lehrer: Empathy for “Undesirable” Patients
Doctors have notorious contempt for alcoholics, drug addicts, and morbidly obese patients, and they often make little effort to conceal it. By unspoken rules, these patients are considered fair game for jokes by medical personnel at all levels. Hospital slang for such patients reflects not just disgust but also anger and resentment. More
Danielle Ofri on NPR’s ‘The Takeaway’
Danielle Ofri is interviewed by NPR’s John Hockenberry on ‘The Takeaway’ about whether medical school makes students jaded and bitter. More
Doctors’ Suicide discussed on NPR
What happens it’s the doctor who commits suicide? Sadly, physicians–as a group–have a higher suicide rate than other professionals. Here’s the story of one doctor and the effects of his death on his student. More
NPR Interview–Why Would Anyone Become a Doctor?
Danielle Ofri speaks on Minnesota Public Radio about why would anyone choose to become a doctor. Hear the story now. More
NPR: Medical Translation
Danielle is featured on an NPR story about medical translation in hospitals. In this photo she is using a special “language phone” with two handsets. She and the patient can speak to each other directly, with a remote interpreter providing simultaneous translation. (photo from WNYC website). Listen here: More
Leonard Lopate Show WNYC
Listen to Danielle Ofri interviewed by Leonard Lopate on WNYC FM 93.9 about her book “Medicine in Translation” and the ins and outs of medical care in America today. More
Danielle Ofri profiled on NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’
Melissa Block of “All Things Considered” followed Danielle Ofri on her rounds at Bellevue Hospital. Listen below or read the transcript. And here is the wonderful poem Gaudeamus Igitur that Danielle read on the air. More
Rationing Patient Care–NPR
Commentator Danielle Ofri is a physician at a big New York City hospital. She tells the story of how a poor patient had little choice but to wait months for a specialist; this would not have been the case if the patient had money. More
Unknown Asian Male–NPR
Commentator Dr. Danielle Ofri tells the story of a patient who was found singing John Denver songs and appeared to be mentally disturbed. But he was simply a victim of poisoning. He’d been given scopalamine, which thieves use to cause amnesia in victims. And luckily, there’s an antidote. More
