Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Nancy Falco Chedid

  • Identity beyond memory: Rethinking early onset Alzheimer’s disease

    Firas Ghanem Beirut, LebanonNancy ChedidCambridge, Massachusetts, United States “On my good days, I can almost pass for a normal person, and on my bad days, I feel like I can’t find myself. I’ve always been so defined by my intellect, my language, my articulation, and now sometimes I can see the words hanging in front of…

  • Procession of honor

    Nancy ChedidCambridge, Massachusetts, United States We all heard the alarm. Strident and jarring. As medical interns in our eighth month of training—our nerves primed, our blood already rising—we steeled ourselves for the announcement that must follow. Was it a cardiac arrest? An ambulance, rushing accident victims to the emergency room? A fire? No. The voice…