NPR: Medical Translation
Danielle is featured on an NPR story about medical translation in hospitals. In this photo she is using a special “language phone” with two handsets. She and the patient can speak to each other...
View ArticleSt. Vincent’s Hospital (1849-2010)
Locking the entrance to the emergency room: there could not have been a more potent image to the final day of St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City. After 160 years, St. Vincent’s closed because of...
View Article"Quality" Medical Care
We all want “quality” medical care. But how should quality actually be measured?
View ArticleSlow Medicine
I can't tell you exactly when it happened, but sometime in the past two decades, the "practice of medicine" was insidiously morphed into the "delivery of health care." If you aren't sure of the...
View ArticleWomen Still Missing from Medicine's Top Ranks
While women make up about half of all medical students and a third of academic faculty members, they are are still vastly underrepresented in leadership roles. Is it that the medical world remains...
View ArticleLab, Interrupted
All academic medical centers rest on a tripod — patient care, education and research. The effect of Hurricane Sandy on the third leg of that tripod — research — has gotten the least attention, partly...
View ArticleAt Bellevue, a Hospital Reflects its Changing World
Though city hospitals invoke images of charity patients from teeming, poverty-stricken slums, of substandard, last-resort medical care, the reality is quite different. Medical care is top-notch, and...
View ArticleMissing the Final Act
Diseases, like dramas, have a natural progression. There are introductions, developments, climaxes, and dénouements. Read more The post Missing the Final Act appeared first on Danielle Ofri.
View ArticleResidency Regulators are Back!
by Danielle Ofri How many hours can a doctor work? The residency regulators are back. About ten years ago, the national organization that accredits residency programs (ACGME) set out its first...
View ArticleMonday
Maybe it was simply human nature that no one wanted to be sick on weekends. Or admit to it. Or do something about it. Whatever the reason, Mondays were always the days of reckoning: weekend walls of...
View ArticlePatients, and Doctors, Aren’t Dying at Home
Doctors, it turns out, aren’t much different than everyone else when it comes to where they die. Read more The post Patients, and Doctors, Aren’t Dying at Home appeared first on Danielle Ofri.
View ArticleThe Impressive Profits of Nonprofit Hospitals
Seven of the ten most profitable hospitals in America are nonprofit hospitals. Is this an oxymoron? More The post The Impressive Profits of Nonprofit Hospitals appeared first on Danielle Ofri.
View Article“Frontline Workers”
Even after Covid-19 is tamed by the forthcoming vaccines, health care workers will still be frontline workers. Because you never know what will show up tomorrow. More The post “Frontline Workers”...
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