Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: John Buchan

  • To Sir, with gratitude

    Anthony Papagiannis Thessaloniki, Greece   When I was twelve my late grandfather, seeing that I was disinclined to study English, made me an offer I could hardly ignore. “If you learn English,” he said, “then we shall go to America together,” knowing that this was a boyhood dream of mine. A few years later, at…