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Danielle Ofri is an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York and a faculty member at the affiliated New York University department of medicine. She knows Bellevue well, having cut her teeth as a medical student and trained as a medical resident there. Besides her MD, she has a degree in physiology and a PhD in biochemistry. Now she divides her time between seeing patients, teaching, editing and writing. The Bellevue Literary Review was launched in October 2001 and is published twice yearly. Ofri’s book of essays, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a doctor at Bellevue, will be published in April…