Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: liver disease

  • The Korean soldier

    Charles Halsted Davis, California, United States   Korean War, train attack. 1950. US Army Military History Institute. Public Domain. A fifty-five-year-old Korean man arrived at the emergency room of our teaching hospital after suddenly vomiting blood during the night. Called next morning to consult in our intensive care unit, I reviewed his chart and pulled…