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Volume 353:435-436 July 28, 2005 Number 4
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Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine

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By Danielle Ofri. 181 pp. Boston, Beacon Press, 2005. $23.95. ISBN 0-8070-7266-4.

In her first book, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue (Boston: Beacon Press, 2003), Danielle Ofri describes how it was to be a medical student at Bellevue Hospital in New York. Now, in Incidental Findings, Ofri tells how it is to be an attending physician on one of the general medical services of Bellevue, a large (1200-bed) city hospital with more than 25,000 admissions and 400,000 clinic visits each year.

After finishing her residency at Bellevue, Ofri takes time off to travel and supports herself as a locum tenens whenever she needs money. In a clinic on the Gulf . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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