Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: emergency room

  • I don’t know how it happened

    Rae Brown Lexington, Kentucky, United States   There are angels in every emergency room. They sit above the fray and listen and learn. They hear the laments of the doctors and nurses as they try to save a child. They hear the sometimes incredulous comments of those who may be responsible, in some way, for…

  • The middle finger: identity crisis in the emergency room

    Lara Bazelon San Francisco, California, United States   I am a lawyer who writes. I write about the criminal justice system, single parenting, divorce, and I am also an aspiring novelist. I had always written, scribbling in diaries as a little kid, writing early in the morning before I went to work or on the…