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Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD

Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine

My Research

KEYWORDS

doctor-patient connection , doctor-patient communication, medical humanities

SUMMARY

Danielle Ofri has written five books about life in medicine, with a special focus on the doctor–patient relationship:

•     What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
•     What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
•     Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients
•     Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
•     Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue

​Ofri writes regularly for the New York Times and Slate Magazine about medicine and the doctor–patient relationship. Her essays have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Slate Magazine, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, CNN.com, and on National Public Radio.​

Ofri’s essays have been selected twice for inclusion in the Best American Essays seri…

The Insulin Wars

How insurance companies farm out their dirty work to doctors and patients.

By Danielle Ofri

Dr. Ofri practices at Bellevue Hospital in New York.

• Jan. 18, 2019

CreditIllustration by Joan Wong; Photographs by Westend61/Getty Images and malerapaso/Getty Images

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CreditCreditIllustration by Joan Wong; Photographs by Westend61/Getty Images and malerapaso/Getty Images

“Doctor, could you please redo my insulin prescription? The one you gave me is wrong.” My patient’s frustration was obvious over the phone. She was standing at the pharmacy, unable to get her diabetes medication. 

We had gone through this just the week before. I’d prescribed her the insulin she’d been on, at the correct dosage, but when she showed up at her pharmacy she learned that her insurance company no longer covered that brand. After a series of phone messages back and forth, I’d redone the prescription with what I’d thought was the correct insulin, but I was apparently wrong. Again.

Between 2002 and 2013, prices tripled for some insulins. Many cost around $300 a vial, without any viable generic alternative. Most patients use two or three vials a month, but others need the equivalent of four. Self-rationing has become common as patients struggle to keep up. In the short term, fluctuating blood sugar levels can lead to confusion, dehydration, coma, even death. In the long term, poorly controlled diabetes is associated with heart attacks, strokes, blindness, amputation and the need for dialysis.

Contact

PHONE

212-562-1686

FAX

212-562-1597

ACADEMIC OFFICE

Bellevue Hospital, 462 First Avenue

Suite 2B 

New York, NY 10016

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