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September 25, 2017

The Sixth Hektoen International Grand Prix essay competition received a record number of submissions and we thank our readers for the many wonderful articles they have sent. Out of over two hundred applicants, our contest judges selected the following winner, two runners up, and nine finalists who are highlighted below.

 

Winner

Tales from the crypt: the mosaic symbolism of Louis Pasteur’s tomb, by Dr. Abigail Cline

Runners-up

The education of Doctor Chekhov, by Dr. Jack Coulehan
“Mississsippi Appendectomy” and other stories: when silence is complicity, by Dr. Alida Rol

 

Honorable mentions
“I shouldn’t know you again if we did
meet:” Prosopagnosia, by Dr. Sylvia Karasu
A hospital for sick children,
by Joseph deBettencourt
The basest of the senses: medical unease
with the sense of smell, by Rebecca Shulman		 Cultivating clinical compassion
with cultural encounters, by Jeffrey Lee
The monarch, the musician, and the
medic, by Dr. Jesus Ramírez-Bermudez
Medical deafness or the madness of
war: Goya’s motivation…, by Sarah Bahr		 Bugs and people: when epidemics change
history, by Dr. Salvatore Mangione
Why ‘Nurse’ Grace Poole is the greatest
puzzle in Jane Eyre, by Sarah Wise
The unsexed woman: depictions of
women…, by Katherina Baranova