Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Cognitive Dissonance

  • She was even in love with you

    Stewart Massad St. Louis, Missouri, USA    Cognitive Dissonance: Gratitude in oncology Francis Delisle was coming out of Bard’s TrueValue Hardware with ant bait in a paper bag when he saw Marty Van Etten coming up Main Street. Marty’s wife Anne had died at winter’s end, only forty-seven, from glioblastoma, after surgery in Baltimore, radiation…