so on a given day in bellevue, there is really every language. i speak english only occasionnally or with an interpreter and i wanted to start with a short reading that is an experience that took place on the inpatient wards. i spend about 80% my time in the outpatient clinic and about 20% of the time on the inpatient wards. one month later, i was back on the inpatient wards. united nations was having some sort of flamboyant celebration. i didn't know what the occasion was, and bellevue hospital was not an official part of it. but because we were only a few blocks down the road from the u.n., we were the recipients of the fallout. the scene in the hospital was not too dissimilar from what i imagined the general assembly of the united nations to look like. envoys from the different nations were clumped into various locations throughout the e.r. identifiable by distinctive dress and accents. there was the begun nayan diplomat with acute enteris. there waenteris. a swiss non-governmental working had tripped off the curb. his group wore sleek double

. >>> a doctorate bellevue the nation's oldest public hospital in new york city tells of her care of immigrant patience and the difficulties of treating non-english-speaking patients. politics and prose in washington, d.c. hosts this 45 minute event. >> are you all set? okay. we can start. im barbara mead, one of the owners of politics and prose, and this evening i want to welcome danielle ofri. danielle is one on a rather long list of doctors, literary doctors who have visited politics and prose, and actually just earlier this month we had otto talk about his book and there's a number of other literary doctors who find -- that have been here to politics and prose find their names on the book where they have high words of praise for the jerome gripman and abraham, they are all doctors we know well here at the store. danielle ofri is also a literary doctor in that she is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the bellevue literary review. she brought copies of it here this evening. you can see it. and it's been going for almost a decade now. i think that's quite an achievement to keep a

i am an intern this, and the work of bellevue hospital contrary to popular belief bellvue is not a mental hospital. it is a general hospital. it started in 1736 and continues to this day and as a public hospital in new york it has been a magnet for the immigrant population in new york because the stores of an open to all regardless of background and bellvue has seen the waves of immigrants over the centuries. irs, jewish, aripeka emigrants all colors and flavors and in bellvue all the signs are in three languages but apparently 40% of the illiterate speak none of those languages. emigrants continue to come to velveeta even when they have moved onto planes in westchester because bill do you is hospital to have immigrants. the origin of this book started that year in costa rica. i had always had the fantasy of writing in novel and i can't, couldn't imagine writing fiction in the way that i write non-fiction which is piecemeal essays. i have this fantasy of leaving another country, would learn spanish, my children would be immersed in the language in another culture so we worked a year in co

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