Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Frederick the Great

  • Matushka’s ordeal

    Sarah IrawaParañaque City, Philippines Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette’s biographer, wrote of his heroine as “the most signal example in history in which destiny will at times pluck a human being from obscurity and, with commanding hand, force the man or woman in question to overstep the bounds of mediocrity.” The same could be said of…