Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Yasmine Koukaz

  • When empathy strikes and the curtain falls

    Yasmine Koukaz Philadelphia, PA, United States   One slow November afternoon, while sitting in an advisory dean’s meeting about the countless items I needed to add to my resume before applying to residency, I received a surprise in my inbox. It was an email about a fifteen-week theater course that would be held on campus…