Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Geraldine Gorman

  • Nursing diagnoses

    Mat Matteson, Geraldine Gorman Chicago, Illinois, United States   Introduction: An inoculation in just time Manic heart Mark W. Lubich Detail of original, Acrylic paint on canvas 21 X 21 inches   Ah, the end of the semester. In the best of times it hauls with it taunting deadlines, a gaggle of loose ends, and inevitable…

  • Maximum security kindness or the public health nurse accrues her CEU’s

    Geraldine Gorman Chicago, Illinois, United States   When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel As she leaned into the doorway of my room, I explained the quandary to my daughter, Grace. “I don’t know what to do,” I said, “I am supposed…

  • Desert blooms

    Geraldine Gorman Chicago, Illinois, United States   Springtime has come to the desert. It is subtle, but spring, nonetheless. I am here with a group of nursing students who are spending their break working with a humanitarian aid organization serving the undocumented border crossers. Some of us are in Nogales, which spans the Arizona/Mexican border, some…