Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: face

  • The sweetest gift

    Subramoniam RangaswamiKarnataka, India It was the mid-1970s. We were busy packing our portmanteaus and bags in preparation for leaving our campus residence in Calicut Medical College in Kerala1 where I had been working as an assistant professor of orthopedics. I thought I heard someone cough outside on our doorstep. Sure enough, I saw a man…