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Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
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Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine

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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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Beacon Press
Country
United States
Date
1 April 2006
Pages
192
ISBN
9780807072677

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Beacon Press
Country
United States
Date
1 April 2006
Pages
192
ISBN
9780807072677