Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: medical rape

  • The veteran’s hospital

    Helen FosterRichmond, Virginia, United States Poet’s statement Before I went to medical school, I followed doctor’s orders to hold my toddler son down and force on him more eye-drops than he needed to dilate his pupils. He panicked, and the atropine drops made him hallucinate. The incident I describe in my poem “The Veteran’s Hospital”…