num_pages: 246
description: When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of New York's legendary Bellevue Hospital as a tentative medical student, she is plunged into the teeming world of urban mysterious illnesses, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, overworked interns devising audacious strategies to cope with the intensity of a big-city hospital. In a facility where poverty and social strife are as much a part of the pathology as any microbe, it is the medical students and interns who are thrust into the searing intimacy that is the doctor-patient relationship. With each chapter, Ofri introduces us to a new medical crisis and a human being with an intricate and compelling history.
language: English
title: Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
titlecomplete: Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
genres: Autobiography, Medical, History, Adult, Biography, Medicine, Health, Science, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 858
publisher: Penguin Books