Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: clinical investigator

  • A teacher remembered

    Martin DukeMystic, Connecticut While a student in medical school during the early 1950s, I was assigned by chance to the medical service of Dr. Ludwig Eichna at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital (Figure 1). A professor of medicine and a respected cardiologist, clinical investigator, and medical educator, Dr. Eichna was serious, reserved, quiet in demeanor,…