Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: National Guard

  • The First Cut

    Lisa FriedmanCleveland, Ohio, United States Poet’s statement The poem is about my first experience with cadavers in the anatomy lab at medical school. The first cut My first patient was an 88-year-old female“Congestive Heart Failure” the chart said.Not in acute distressNeither alert nor oriented x 3. I was told I had consent to look.She lay…