Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Charles River

  • Massachusetts General Hospital, 1992

    Randall S. StaffordCalifornia, United States To be summoned to pronounce the end of a patient’s life is always unnerving and he was my first death during my Massachusetts General Hospital internship.  The task required a physician, no matter how inexperienced.  My patient, the eighty-one year-old Mr. H., was one of the privileged class of old…