Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Letter

  • Nurse reading

    This Turkish postcard shows a nurse reading a letter to a wounded man. The nurse appears to smile, even as her patient remains seemingly indifferent to whatever news she has brought him. The postcard conjures a number of questions. How was he injured? Is he far from home? Who has written him? Where is his…

  • Letter to my body

    Tereza CrvenkovicSydney, Australia Dear Body, Here we are clinging to this rope, swinging from side-to-side, above this great big stage with its pitch-black backdrop. Anything could happen to us. Anything. How did it come to this? How did we get here? I do not have the answer. We have been together for some time now.…