Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Meningiomas

  • “Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease”

    Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden   Hair loss in child with tinea capitis infection. CDC, 1970. Public domain. Overconfidence is an undesirable quality. It does not enhance a physician’s approach to learning, nor to changing when change is needed. How a doctor diagnoses or treats a condition today may cause future generations of physicians to wonder,…