Tag: Danielle Ofri
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Defining medicine
Amira Athanasios Walnut Creek, California, United States Image by Amira Athanasios Defining Medicine. The bolded script screamed at me from a massive poster hung six stories high along the side of the university hospital on my first day of medical school. Like most millennials, I pursued medicine with a deep conviction to make a…
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The pastor’s son
Danielle OfriNew York City, New York, United States From Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients, Copyright © 2010 Danielle Ofri. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston. There was a sharp rap at the apartment door. When Samuel Chuks Nwanko opened it, he saw a young man standing in the hallway wearing a stained denim…