Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Cheeseburgers

  • Cheeseburgers and cursewords

    Sara Gody Jackson Bybee Salt Lake City, Utah   I hardly recognized him. The photograph in his hospital record taken two years prior boasts a thirty-seven-year-old man with a full face, short reddish hair and a twinkle in his eyes. Now he reclines passively in bed, his face sallow, cheek bones protruding like the pointy…