Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: How the Poor Die by George Orwell 1946

  • “How the Poor Die” by George Orwell, 1946

    The next moment . . . the doctor and the students came across to my bed, hoisted me upright and without a word began applying the same set of glasses, which had not been sterilized in any way. A few feeble protests that I uttered got no more response than if I had been an…