Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Lawren Vandevrede

  • A window on iatrogenesis

    Norm LieskaChicago, Illinois, United States The medical school journey is a roadway lined with many mileposts. These appear suddenly and pass quickly—in laboratories, lecture halls, clinics, and patient rooms. Often the travelers are not even aware that they have passed a milepost in the fogs of their arduous journey. We who attempt to help these…

  • Tense

    Lawren VandeVredeChicago, Illinois, United States I stand in a room where overhalf of the people are dead.Students stand like vulturesover corpses barely identifiable as human.Lieska stalks like a reaper between the tablesculling fascia and fat.But death is not present in the room.Death has come and done his grisly work,ripping holes in life.All that is left in…