She writes regularly about medicine and the doctor-patient relationship for the New York Times. Her essays have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, and on CNN.com and National Public Radio. Her most recent book, What Patients Say; What Doctors Hear, was published by Beacon Press in 2017. Her essays have been selected by Stephen Jay Gould, Oliver Sacks, and Susan Orlean for The Best American Essays (twice) and Best American Science Writing. She is the recipient of the John P. McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers Association for “preeminent contributions to medical communication.” Dr. Ofri is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, the first literary journal to arise from a medical setting.