Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: John Broome

  • The guinea pig’s gift: Serendipity and the starvation of leukemia

    Prasad IyerSingapore Medical breakthroughs often arrive not with a fanfare of logic, but with the quiet, baffling persistence of a laboratory anomaly that refuses to be ignored. In 1953, the laboratories of Cornell University Medical College operated in a world away from the high-stakes precision of modern oncology. Dr. John Kidd was not hunting for…