Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Hephaestus at the Forge

  • On becoming a disabled physician

    Mel EbelingBirmingham, Alabama, United States The same prominent scar blemishes each foot: beginning two inches below my big toe, it slithers along the medial aspect of my foot, making a hairpin turn around my ankle before coming to an abrupt halt on the opposite side, two inches below my pinky toe. I have bilateral congenital…