Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Gordon Kauffman

  • Miracle

    Gordon KauffmanHershey, Pennsylvania, USA Poet’s statement While I was participating in a short-term surgical project to Malawi, a nutritionally depleted, malaria-ridden, young boy from Mozambique was brought to the hospital. His abdomen was distended and his abdominal examination revealed peritonitis. The only familiar face in the hospital was his mother’s. While preparing him for surgery,…