Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: A nurse is sitting at the bedside of a wounded man with a bandage over his eyes; she is reading him a letter

  • Nurse reading

    This Turkish postcard shows a nurse reading a letter to a wounded man. The nurse appears to smile, even as her patient remains seemingly indifferent to whatever news she has brought him. The postcard conjures a number of questions. How was he injured? Is he far from home? Who has written him? Where is his…