This chapter profiles Dr. Danielle Ofri, an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine (Ofri, Danielle Ofri [Official website]. https://danielleofri.com/ , n.d.; NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD. https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/danielle-ofri , n.d.), a prolific medical writer who has published six books about life in medicine, all by Beacon Press (Ofri, Singular intimacies: becoming a doctor at Bellevue. Beacon Press, Boston, 2003; Ofri, Incidental findings: lessons from my patients in the art of medicine. Beacon Press, Boston, 2005; Ofri, Medicine in translation: journeys with my patients. Beacon Press, Boston, 2010; Ofri, What doctors feel: how emotions affect the practice of medicine. Beacon Press, Boston, 2013; Ofri, What patients say, what doctors hear. Beacon Press, Boston, 2017; Ofri, When we do harm: a doctor confronts medical error. Beacon Press, Boston, 2020; NYU News, Five NYU faculty awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships. https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2023/april/five-nyu-faculty-awarded-2023-guggenheim-fellowships.html , 2023, April). After earning her MD and PhD in pharmacology from NYU School of Medicine, where she worked with Eric J. Simon, PhD, to study the biochemistry and signal transduction of opiate receptors (NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD. https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/danielle-ofri , n.d.), and completing internal medicine residency at Bellevue Hospital from 1993 to 1996 (Doximity, Dr. Danielle Ofri, MD—New York, NY | Internal Medicine. https://www.doximity.com/pub/danielle-ofri-md , n.d.), Dr. Ofri returned to Bellevue as an attending physician in 1998, where she continues practicing primary care and teaching (NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD. https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/danielle-ofri , n.d.). Her debut memoir “Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue” (2003) traces her experiences in medical school and residency at an inner-city hospital (Ofri, Danielle Ofri [Official website]. https://danielleofri.com/ , n.d.; Encyclopedia.com, Ofri, Danielle. https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/ofri-danielle , n.d.). In 2000, she co-founded the Bellevue Literary Review, the first literary journal to arise from a medical setting, serving as Editor-in-Chief (Ofri, Danielle Ofri [Official website]. https://danielleofri.com/ , n.d.; Bellevue Literary Review, Home. https://blreview.org , n.d.; Ofri, NPR [Tag archive]. Danielle Ofri. https://danielleofri.com/tag/npr/ , n.d.). The Bellevue Literary Review received a prestigious Whiting Literary Magazine Prize (Bellevue Literary Review, Home. https://blreview.org , n.d.; Whiting Foundation, Bellevue literary review. https://www.whiting.org/content/bellevue-literary-review , n.d.). Dr. Ofri has received numerous awards including the 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship (NYU News, Five NYU faculty awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships. https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2023/april/five-nyu-faculty-awarded-2023-guggenheim-fellowships.html , 2023, April), the 2023 Davies Memorial Scholar Award from the American College of Physicians (American College of Physicians, ACP announces 2022–23 recipients of Masterships and National Awards. https://www.acponline.org/about-acp/awards-masterships-and-competitions/acp-announces-2022-23-recipients-of-masterships-and-national-awards , 2023), the 2022 National Humanism in Medicine Medal from the Gold Foundation (Arnold P. Gold Foundation, Gold Foundation to honor four inspiring leaders with 2022 National Humanism in Medicine Medals. https://www.gold-foundation.org/newsroom/news/gold-foundation-to-honor-four-inspiring-leaders-with-2022-national-humanism-in-medicine-medals/ , 2022), and the McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers Association for “preeminent contributions to medical communication (Ofri, Danielle Ofri [Official website]. https://danielleofri.com/ , n.d.; Ofri, Danielle Ofri M.D., Ph.D. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/danielle-ofri-md-phd , n.d.).”