Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Dry point etching of a brain

  • The thickening of blood

    Nod Ghosh Christchurch, New Zealand   It begins when you are a child, in the pre-antibiotic dawn of an Indian summer, one of six siblings, five of whom will eventually die of broken heart valves or diabetes. But let us say for now, you are a child, a child who loves to dance, to play…