Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Coulehan

  • The education of Doctor Chekhov

    Jack CoulehanStony Brook, New York, USA October 1883. A fifth-year medical student at Moscow State University agonizes over his upcoming exam. “Woe is me!” he writes to his older brother, “I am forced to learn almost everything from the beginning… cadavers to be worked on, clinical studies, making the rounds of the hospital. I work…