The sweet smell of success
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden Cropped from photo by Kat Jayne from Pexels “You shall nose him . . .” — Hamlet, Act IV, scene III It was July 1977. After having done a rotating internship, I was starting my pediatric residency at the academic children’s hospital. My first rotation was in the outpatient […]
Only blood
Anthony Chiocchi New York, New York, United States Dona Mercedes Velasco’s recovery from nosebleed after prayer to the Lord of the Abandoned. Oil painting, 1854. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY-NC I remember my first nosebleed. It was the late eighties and I was at the age where it was still permissible for me to sleep […]