Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Aditi Mahajan

  • Boredom in hospitalized patients

    Aditi MahajanSana RahmanWashington D.C., United States On my medical school psychiatry rotation, we were asked to see a patient who had many medical problems. After rounding on him for a week, we realized that he was suffering from sheer boredom. He was in a foreign country where nobody spoke his native language, had limited familial…