Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Francesca Dionigi

  • Listening to the patient

    Marina MaffoniFrancesca DionigiPavia, Italy Alex was a smart thirty-nine year old man with drug-resistant lymphoma. In four years he had undergone two unsuccessful bone marrow transplants. That is all my senior psychologist tutor and I were told by the referring clinician, except that the patient himself had asked for psychological support. So we went to…