Helene Atwan and Danielle Ofri

discuss

What Doctors Feel:
How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

This event includes a book signing

Date

Mar
26
Wednesday
March 26, 2014
7:00 PM ET

Location

FPC Parish House
3 Church St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

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Cambridge Forum is pleased to welcome HELENE ATWAN and DANIELLE OFRI for a discussion of Ofri's book What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine.

Beacon Press director Helene Atwan explores the relationship between editor and author with Danielle Ofria practicing physician, author, and the editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, the premier literary journal focused on illness, health, and healing.

How does writing change Ofri’s practice of medicine? How does editing the Bellevue Literary Review inform her view of her hospital and her patients? What does publishing a “doctor who writes” add to Beacon Press’s legacy?  How has Helene Atwan’s sense of the power of writing changed through her work with Danielle Ofri?

Danielle Ofri
Danielle Ofri

Danielle Ofri

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine, but her clinical home is at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country. She is a founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. Her newest book is What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine. Dr. Ofri is the author of three previous books about life in medicine (Medicine in Translation: Journeys with my PatientsIncidental Findings: Lessons from my Patients in the Art of Medicine; and Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue). She was also editor of a medical textbook—The Bellevue Guide to Outpatient Medicine—which won a Best Medical Textbook award.

Helene Atwan
Helene Atwan

Helene Atwan

Helene Atwan has been director of Beacon Press since October 1995. She holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Virginia. She began her career in publishing at Random House, and has worked at Alfred A. Knopf, The Viking Press; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; and Simon and Schuster. Her acquisitions at Beacon include Gayl Jones’s The Healing, a National Book Award Finalist, Wendy Kaminer’s Worst Instincts, four books by acclaimed medical writer Danielle Ofri and four by celebrated historian Rashid Khalidi; memoirs such as Meredith Hall’s Without A Map, as well as books by Lani Guinier, Anita Hill, and Cornel West.  She edited ten volumes of poetry by Pulitzer-prize winner Mary Oliver. She served for eight years on the board of PEN-New England and has been the Administrator of the PEN/Hemingway Award since 2003.

FPC Parish House
3 Church St., Cambridge, MA 02138

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