Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: On the Banks of the Ganges River

  • On the banks of the Ganges

    Susan BeckFort Collins, Colorado, United States She told me how her brother diedin a screaming instant of metal and splintering windshield.She told me in the silence of the exam room,my brain let goof Latin names, syndromes,the architecture of molecules,which way sodium, and potassiumflow across the ghostly cell membrane. Prayers meant for the ears of gods…