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If asked what a doctor does, most people would probably come up with the standard description of diagnosing and treating disease, usually while wearing an ill-fitting white coat. Before I entered practice, even during my medical training that probably would have been my answer too. Read More

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psychiatry in translation

...and in psychiatry, we're explaining the inexplicable. We have no x-rays or blood tests to show the patient, only diagrams of what we think (feel fairly certain, actually) is going on inside your head.

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Danielle Ofri is a physician in New York City's Bellevue Hospital, and a writer and commentator about doctor-patient relationships.

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