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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Their wordsI 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.
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Their wordsPeople have always turned to the arts in moments of vulnerability.
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Their wordsAs 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.
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThis 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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Their wordsGrappling with ambiguity, uncertainty and contradiction is exactly where the humanities excel, and exactly why A.I. can't supplant the totality of medical care.
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Character study remains an indispensable part of accurate diagnosis and effective treatment.
Their wordsA.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.
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsIt 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.
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Their wordsThere 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.
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Their wordsAnd 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.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsBut the plunder of the second Trump administration has disemboweled them and installed fox-guarding-the-henhouse leadership.
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Their wordsMedical professionals can no longer fully trust federal health guidance, and our patients are the ones who will suffer the most.
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Their wordsAmericans' health will decline at the hands of our federal government.
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsCoupled 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.
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsThis significantly weakens the federal agencies' ability to define the rules that cover health, safety, the environment and other sectors.
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Their wordsInconsistencies 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.
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Their wordsThe judicial unraveling of health and safety regulations will lumber forth no matter who is elected president in November.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsFederal 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.
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Their wordsCongress should tune out hospital lobbying and enact these common-sense measures to protect patients.