Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: osmosis

  • History of human water channels

    Mostafa ElbabaDoha, Qatar Water is the essence of life; it serves as the fundamental solvent for many biochemical processes. Different theories have examined how life began on Earth.1 One of the most popular scientific theories suggests that hot chemicals raised through the sea floor enabled a chemical reaction between hydrogen and carbon, producing simple organic…

  • In search of Cassandra

    Charles KelsSan Antonio, Texas, United States “Psychiatrists are [not] always wrong with respect to future dangerousness, only most of the time.”– Barefoot v Estelle, 463 US 880 (1983) My wife is the smartest person I know, but she is not, to the best of my knowledge, omniscient. This qualification would be unnecessary had she not…