Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Louise Gordon

  • Movie review: Kings Row—Assassins in white coats

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “Above all, I must not play God.”—Revised Hippocratic Oath2 Kings Row (1942) is a film set in a small American town in the early nineteen-hundreds. It features two doctors who are best avoided as well as a bright young man called Parris sent by his wealthy grandmother to study medicine in Vienna.…