Beacon Press director Helene Atwan explores the relationship between editor and author with Danielle Ofri, a practicing physician and the editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, a 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? How has Helene Atwan’s sense of the power of writing changed through her work with Danielle Ofri?
Danielle Ofri 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. Her newest book is What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine.
Helene Atwan has been director of Beacon Press since 1995. She serves on the board of PEN-New England and the National Coalition against Censorship.
Recorded March 26, 2014 This program in our series My Life Touched by Art, is supported by a grant from the Cambridge Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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