Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Phantom limb syndrome

  • Phantom pains

    Daly Walker Boca Grande, Florida and Quechee, Vermont, United States   Most memories pass on to oblivion without changing anything. But some are so powerful they transform who you are. They never leave you. Without my memories of a girl named Jane, I would never have become the doctor I am. On a clear December…