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In Singular Intimacies, which the New England Journal of Medicine said captured the'essence of becoming and being a doctor, ' Danielle Ofri led us into the hectic, constantly challenging world of big-city medicine. In Incidental Findings, she's finished her training and is learning through practice to become a more rounded healer. The book opens with a dramatic tale of the tables being turned on Dr. Ofri: She's had to shed the precious white coat and credentials she worked so hard to earn and enter her own hospital as a patient. She experiences the real'slight prick and pressure' of a long needle as well as the very real sense of invasion and panic that routinely visits her patients.

These fifteen intertwined tales include 'Living Will, ' where Dr. Ofri treats a man who has lost the will to live, and she too comes dangerously close to concluding that he has nothing to live for;'Common Ground, ' in which a patient's difficult decision to have an abortion highlights the vulnerabilities of doctor and patient alike;'Acne, ' where she is confronted by a patient whose physical and emotional abuse she can't possibly heal, so she must settle on treating the one thing she can, the least of her patient's problems; and finally a stunning concluding chapter, 'Tools of the Trade, ' where Dr. Ofri's touch is the last in a woman's long life.

ISBN-13: 9780807072677

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Beacon Press

Publication Date: 04-01-2006

Pages: 192

Product Dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

Dr. Danielle Ofri, author of Singular Intimacies, is an attending physician at Bellevue and the cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. She is currently a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Incidental Findings 1
1 Living Will 11
2 Common Ground 25
3 Acne 38
4 A Day in the Clinic 41
5 The Journey 60
6 Torment 68
7 Vision 75
8 Terminal Thoughts 94
9 In Her Own Key 108
10 Sat 132
11 Tendrils 141
12 Missing the Final Act 152
13 Emigration 157
14 Tools of the Trade 170
Acknowledgments 177