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“Danielle Ofri is a finely gifted writer, a born storyteller as well as a born physician.”—Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat “A gifted storyteller, Ofri provides vivid details that bring readers right into the exam room with her . . . describing how her patients’ histories stirred her to practice medicine more compassionately, inspired her with their hope and fortitude.”─Sarah Halzack, Washington Post “Danielle Ofri’s new work presents the reader with artfully controlled chaos. . . . Brisk, fast-paced, and organized with an eye both to variety and recurrence.”─Rachel Hadas, Times Literary Supplement “Her writing tumbles forth with color and emotion. She demonstrates an ear for dialogue, a humility about the limits of her medical training, and an extraordinary capacity to be touched by human suffering.”—Jan Gardner, Boston Globe
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About the Author
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and has cared for patients at New York’s Bellevue Hospital for more than two decades. Writing in the Guardian, Andrew Solomon singled out Ofri as the only woman among an extraordinary new generation of doctor writers, saying, “Ofri has produced four impressive books and numerous articles, all striking for their reversion to empathy, their willingness to sense not only the physical life of a patient, but also the emotional.” Ofri’s books and articles have become academic staples in medical schools, universities and residency programs. She is the editor in chief of the Bellevue Literary Review and writes regularly for the New York Times. Ofri in New York City.
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Product details
Paperback: 251 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press; 1 edition (April 12, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807001260
ISBN-13: 978-0807001264
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
52 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#815,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book is beautiful, haunting and incredibly well written. The scenarios and personalities jump off the page to walk around the reader’s living room, and then settle down in the reader’s heart. Some of those scenarios and characters are profoundly disturbing. Dr. Ofri works with survivors of severe trauma in the renowned Survivors of Torture program at Bellevue Hospital, and she does not flinch in recounting some of the horrors that befell her patients before coming to the US. Other scenarios are beautifully uplifting—her year in Costa Rica, for example, or the story of the Tibetan patient who is on a hunger strike and decides to eat after a nurse’s aide speaks to him about the mountains in Tibet. Throughout the book, Dr. Ofri is honest about her own struggles, irritations, limitations, and strengths in all the arenas of her life--as a doctor, a mother, and a human being. She writes with poise, lightness (even when describing “heavy†subjects) and a wonderful sense of humor. Her reflections on cross-cultural medicine and on linguistics are fascinating and make this book a must-read for humanitarians, health/mental health professionals working with people from other cultures, and anyone interested in human rights both abroad, and in the US (especially regarding immigrants).
From the moment you pick up the book Medicine in Translation, you are drawn into Dr. Ofri's world of medicine, home life and music. These three are the pillars of this book, a sensitive and sometimes heart -rendering portrayal of one very busy doctor's work with patient's many of whom have traveled a long distance between their homeland where torture has maimed their bodies . Along with others who have left a country for more benign reasons, these people arrive at Bellevue Hospital needing medical attention and come under the care of an especially caring, doctor who attempts to provide state of the art medical attention to those who are often undocumented aliens lacking health insurance, money and even a basic language in which to discuss the medical problem. None of this comes easy, not to the beleaguered people who need the help, nor to the doctor who wishes to bestow the treatment learned in medical school but who is often stymied by governmental regulations that govern the dispensation of needed help. A young woman, a mother trying to bring her child over to this country is weakened by a faulty heart that a transplant would certainly remedy and is prevented from applying for it because she is without the proper papers. Imagine trying to work out treatment plans as the two - patient and doctor sitting in one room connected by a telephone and an invisible translator, an unsung hero at Bellevue Hospital who listens to both doctor and patient translating symptoms and intended high-tech medical regime.Dr. Ofri mulls over the difficult situations she encounters at work often mixing her thoughts with pieces from her own life. An approachable doctor, she meets with one of her elderly patients in the building where he lives to discuss his wish to leave the country (and his ailing wife) to return to China for his remaining years. The ethics of leaving a wife who soon will not be able to recognize him to return to his country on first hearing seems callous and maybe selfish to her, but true to herself, she ponders these and other issues, intertwining them with thoughts about her children and their developing lives lived so near yet so far from the problems that her patients wrestle with, thoughtful interludes which provide a mirror on the readers' own lives.A budding cellist, Ofri often expresses her thoughts, medical ones, in terms of music that is always under the surface of her thinking. One patient was advised to have a pacemaker installed in his body even after a first installation did him a great disservice. Despite his deep reluctance to having a new one implanted he agreed to do whatever his beloved doctor suggest he do, based on a long association with her since her days of internship, and so, it was installed. Very much aware of her role in his well being, she listened to his heart some weeks after the procedure and "was greeted with the steady metronome of the pacemaker beat" an unavoidable pairing of the pacemaker with a trusty tool of musicians. She doesn't stop there: thinking of those who wrecked havoc on the once pristine bodies of so many of her patients she says: "Even if some humans seemed to exist solely to offer pain and destruction , there were others who existed only to create beauty. The chance to feel the hem of that beauty graze the cheek, was sometimes the only thing that kept the last straw at bay."The book deals with the very timely issue of immigration which often allows people to think of a large mass of people who are essentially faceless to the average person. In this book Dr. Ofri gives voice to people who, though lacking legal status share in our humanity and whose bodies are as vulnerable as are ours. We not only hear their stories through the pen of one person who works with them, but we are helped to understand the ethical issue of turning away people in medical need through the prism of the dilemmas as seen by this particular doctor who cares for and about them. Although she remains politically neutral about the issue of immigration it becomes clear that pathways to citizenship should be opened to people who arrive on our shores to work and contribute to this country.The reader is allowed a glimpse into the life and thoughts of a compassionate doctor, mother, musician and writer who is somehow weaving these aspects of her life into a book so worth reading. Enjoy.
This book actually changed my entire perspective as a clinician working with diverse patients. Dr. Ofri invites you into her not just her world, but her mind and heart and she deals with patients from across the world who are suffering from both unimaginable horrors and sweet surprises. Her patients are highly diverse but she somehow manages to open herself to all the cultural pieces of their souls and generously shares with us her fears and insecurities along the way. She navigates them through all kinds of maladies including heart failure, dementia, disfigurement and disability but, perhaps most poignantly, she manages to learn something about herself from each one of them.I both laughed and cried but, most of all, her book gave me the courage to open my eyes and see my own patients in a new way; one that is no longer annoyed with the thought of having to cram more in my brain and "learn" about their culture, one that no longer sees their differences as an obstacle instead of an opportunity. This book has made me a better practitioner and a better human. I don't know of higher praise to give a book.... it's definitely worth reading.
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