Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is a physician at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in country, and associate professor of medicine at NYU. She writes about medicine and the doctor-patient connection for theNew York Times, and other publications.Her lectures to medical and general audiences are renowned for her use of dramatic stories (and avoidance of PowerPoint).Danielle is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of theBellevue Literary Review.the first literary journal to arise from a medical setting.