Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Frederick Parkes Weber

  • Parkes Weber and his eponyms

    If you spend all your time seeing patients, you are not likely to become famous. Renown and power are more likely to go to the “pretending physicians,”1 the species that can be seen on television, in the newspapers, and among those who spend their lives telling others what to do and how to manage their…