About Danielle

Dr. Danielle Ofri is a respected doctor, professor, and writer who focuses on the relationship between doctors and patients, and on bringing a human touch back to health care. She is a practicing primary care internist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, which is the oldest public hospital in the country. She is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Danielle has written six books about her life in medicine, sharing her insights on what it’s like to be a doctor. Her books include Singular Intimacies, Incidental Findings, Medicine in Translation, What Doctors Feel, and What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear. Her most recent book is When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error. Beyond her clinical and writing work, Danielle is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, a literary magazine that publishes writing about health and healing. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and her essays have also appeared in publications like The New Yorker and The Lancet. Dr. Ofri holds both an M.D. and a Ph.D. from New York University. She often speaks internationally about medical error and communication in health care.