Danielle Ofri
Internist at Bellevue Hospital in New York and editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. Author of books including What Doctors Feel and When We Do Harm; writes essays on medical practice, health policy and medical writing.
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Understanding a patient's story is necessary to help them navigate their illness.
I began to recognize what wiser clinicians had always intuited-if you wanted any hope of helping a patient navigate their illness, you needed to understand their story.
danielleofri.comSaid 26 Jun 2026This on korrents
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It is impossible, at least for now, for AI tools to truly see the multidimensional patient.
This is the inherent limitation of A.I. in medicine. It's simply impossible - at least for now - for these tools to truly see the multidimensional patient.
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Understanding a patient's story is necessary to help them navigate their illness.
I began to recognize what wiser clinicians had always intuited-if you wanted any hope of helping a patient navigate their illness, you needed to understand their story.
Danielle Ofri Said 26 Jun 2026
People turn to the arts during moments of vulnerability.
People have always turned to the arts in moments of vulnerability.
Danielle Ofri Said 26 Jun 2026
Medical professionals must understand the metaphors patients use to convey their inner experiences to avoid diagnostic errors.
As we face a clinical landscape ever more automated by algorithms and artificial intelligence, it is even more imperative that we in medicine train ourselves to understand the metaphors that patients harness as they attempt to convey their inner experience to us; otherwise we will fall short on the diagnosis.
Danielle Ofri Said 26 Jun 2026
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It is impossible, at least for now, for AI tools to truly see the multidimensional patient.
This is the inherent limitation of A.I. in medicine. It's simply impossible - at least for now - for these tools to truly see the multidimensional patient.
Danielle Ofri Said 16 May 2026
AI cannot supplant the totality of medical care because it cannot grapple with ambiguity, uncertainty and contradiction.
Grappling with ambiguity, uncertainty and contradiction is exactly where the humanities excel, and exactly why A.I. can't supplant the totality of medical care.
Danielle Ofri Said 16 May 2026
Character study remains an indispensable part of accurate diagnosis and effective treatment.
A.I. can be a useful prop in the patient's story, but the character study remains an indispensable part of accurate diagnosis and effective treatment.
Danielle Ofri Said 16 May 2026
The current changes to vaccine recommendations are being driven by political goals rather than a standard scientific process.
It seems that a political goal was set - to diminish use of the Covid vaccine - and processes were manipulated in order to achieve the desired outcome, while inconvenient scientists, like the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were jettisoned.
Danielle Ofri Said 2 Oct 2025
The meeting of the vaccine advisory committee is likely to be more political theater than scientific debate.
There is good reason to fear that this meeting will be more political theater than scientific debate; all of the original vaccine experts on the committee were sacked by Mr. Kennedy three months ago and replaced by a new panel that included several people known for vaccine misinformation and anti-vaccine views.
Danielle Ofri Said 2 Oct 2025
Hospitalization rates and deaths will inevitably rise as a result of current political and administrative changes to vaccination.
And when the hospitalization rates and deaths begin to rise - as they inevitably will - we will communally suffer the painful lesson that politics and incompetence cause far more side effects than any vaccine ever could.
Danielle Ofri Said 2 Oct 2025
The plunder of the second Trump administration has disemboweled public health institutions and installed fox-guarding-the-henhouse leadership.
But the plunder of the second Trump administration has disemboweled them and installed fox-guarding-the-henhouse leadership.
Danielle Ofri Said 8 Sept 2025
Medical professionals can no longer fully trust federal health guidance, and patients will suffer the most.
Medical professionals can no longer fully trust federal health guidance, and our patients are the ones who will suffer the most.
Danielle Ofri Said 8 Sept 2025
Americans' health will decline due to the actions of the federal government.
Americans' health will decline at the hands of our federal government.
Danielle Ofri Said 8 Sept 2025
The Trump administration is signaling its contempt for evidence-based science and demonstrating a sweeping disregard for human health and life.
Coupled with other recent actions-pulling out of the World Health Organization, muzzling communications from government health agencies, stopping funding for overseas programs that treat HIV and malaria, drastically cutting NIH research funding-the Trump administration is signaling its contempt for evidence-based science and doing so in a way that demonstrates its sweeping disregard for human health and life.
Danielle Ofri Said 10 Feb 2025
The overturning of the Chevron doctrine significantly weakens the ability of federal agencies to define rules for health, safety, and the environment.
This significantly weakens the federal agencies' ability to define the rules that cover health, safety, the environment and other sectors.
Danielle Ofri Said 27 Sept 2024
Inconsistencies in how lawsuits are decided across different regions could lead to unequal access to routine medical care like vaccines and birth control.
Inconsistencies in how lawsuits play out in different parts of the country could lead to a hodgepodge of unequal rulings that might make certain vaccines and birth control, for example, routine medical care for some Americans, and hard to come by for others.
Danielle Ofri Said 27 Sept 2024
The judicial unraveling of health and safety regulations will continue regardless of the outcome of the November election.
The judicial unraveling of health and safety regulations will lumber forth no matter who is elected president in November.
Danielle Ofri Said 27 Sept 2024
Federal regulations are needed to require facilities to be upfront with their pricing or to eliminate the price differential between hospital-affiliated outpatient departments and other settings.
Federal regulations are needed, at the very least, to require facilities to be upfront with their pricing scheme - and more ideally, to eliminate this price differential entirely.
Danielle Ofri Said 19 Jun 2024
Congress should enact site-neutral payment measures and ignore hospital industry lobbying to protect patients from unfair pricing and deception.
Congress should tune out hospital lobbying and enact these common-sense measures to protect patients.
Danielle Ofri Said 19 Jun 2024
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