Singular Intimacies : Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue

Name: Singular Intimacies : Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
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ISBN: 9780807072523

ISBN-10: 0807072524

ISBN-13: 9780807072523

Edition: 2003

Authors: Danielle Ofri

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In the tradition of Abraham Verghese and Atul Gawande, a gripping memoir of learning medicine in the trenches Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country-and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters these 250-year-old doors as a tentative medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, life-and-death decisions, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, overworked interns devising creative strategies to cope with the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 4/15/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Prologue: Possessing Her Words	p. 1
Drawing Blood	p. 5
AA Battery	p. 17
Stuck	p. 33
Change of Heart	p. 53
July 1st	p. 71
The Professor of Denial	p. 89
The Burden of Knowledge	p. 101
In Charge	p. 113
Time of Death: 3:27 A.M.	p. 130
Immunity	p. 138
Finding the Person	p. 161
Positive	p. 173
M & M	p. 188
Intensive Care	p. 208
Merced	p. 222
Epilogue: Possessing Her Words	p. 237
Acknowledgments	p. 245
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