Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: necrotic tissue

  • Un-impostering

    Brianna RossiterPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA We stood surrounding her tiny body in the hospital bed. Her shallow breaths were splinted by pain as we watched, myself and four second-year, male medical students. Her breath would catch and I wondered if she would disappear into the oblivion of the hospital matrix, her diseased bones and metastasized lungs…